Etymology

gravlaks

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Norwegian gravlaks ← Swedish gravlax
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The story

  1. Swedish · derived fromgravlax
  2. Norwegian · borrowed fromgravlaks
  3. English todaygravlaks

Borrowed from Norwegian gravlaks, a compound of grave (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) + laks (“salmon”), calque of Swedish gravlax.

Words from the same roots

Swedishgravlax all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.