| Remarks |
'Salmon' replaced Old English 'laex' (German 'lachs'; Swedish 'lax', source of English 'gravlax'; Yiddish 'laks', source of English 'lox', i.e., smoked salmon; Russian 'losos') borrowed from Anglo-Norman 'saumoun' from Latin 'salmo, -onis' linked to 'salire', i.e., to jump and hence, the leaping fish (p. 454 in Ref. 11979); 'smooth', Old English 'smethe' survived into modern English dialect 'smeeth' and then to the Old English variant 'smoth', of obscure origins (p. 485 in Ref. 11979); 'head', Old English from prehistoric Germanic 'khaubutham, khaubitham' (German 'haupt', Dutch 'hoofd', Swedish 'huvud', English 'head') from Indo-European 'kauput-, kaupet-', i.e., bowl (as in skull) and head, related to Latin 'caput' (p. 277 in Ref. 11979). |