Meaning

noun any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

noun a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho

noun flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae

originFrom Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense…

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