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Think it comes from the german word for salmon, "Lachs", or at least an earlier version of the word.


Swedish is even closer, there it's "lax" [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax


I learned about „lox“ in NYC, a native told me it comes from jiddish, which is kind of a german dialect.




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