古フランス語のsalmun, salmon, chum salmonから。ラテン語のsalire, to jump, to rush outが語源で、語源的にはsally, resilientと同じである。 魚が飛び跳ねる性質があること、あるいは産卵のために生まれ故郷に移動することから名付けられた可能性がある。
英語の語源
salmon
salmon: [13] The ancestral Indo-European word for ‘salmon’ is lax. It survives in numerous modern European languages, including German lachs, Swedish lax (whence English gravlax), Yiddish laks (source of English lox ‘smoked salmon’), and Russian losos’. The Old English member of the family was l?x, but in the 13th century this was replaced by salmon, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman saumoun. This in turn went back to Latin salmō, which some have linked with salīre ‘jump’ (source of English assail, insult, salient, etc) – hence the ‘leaping’ fish.
salmon (n.)
early 13c., from Anglo-French samoun, Old French salmun (Modern French saumon), from Latin salmonem (nominative salmo) "a salmon," probably originally "leaper," from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)), though some dismiss this as folk etymology. Another theory traces it to Celtic. Replaced Old English l?x, from PIE *lax, the more usual word for the fish (see lox). In reference to a color, from 1786.
例文
1. Poachers have been netting salmon to supply the black market.
密猟者はマリファナを闇市場で売っている。
2.The results prove that regulation of the salmon farming industry is inadequate.
結果、サケ飼育業界の管理が不十分であることが証明された。
3.The main course was to be a whole poached salmon .
メインディッシュは鮭の丸ごと煮込みになります。
4.Fresh salmon is a bargain at the supermarket this week.
今週のスーパーの新鮮な鮭の特価販売。
5.Layer the potatoes,asparagus and salmon in the tin.