Lox of Luck

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• Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re just like your mother.

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  oh roe you!

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You ever check up on these cute and heartwearming stories about moms coming home and having a bunch of kids?

  I lean in and after looking around with a paranoid expression whisper - They are end up dead in the creek, something is fishy about this…

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fun fact, lox is possibly the oldest recorded word in continuous use with an unaltered meaning.

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  • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Definitely not if we’re talking about recorded words. Lax and its cognates are attested in branches of Proto Indo European which aren’t written until the first millennium CE at the earliest. The oldest attestation of a cognate of lax (lax is the native English firm if the word, lox is borrowed from Yiddish which in turn borrowed from German Lachs) would be from Tocharian, in which laks meant fish. There are so many words which are attested thousands of years earlier with consistent meaning over time across more branches of the Indo European tree like words denoting family relations, food and drink and other basic vocabulary. (Of course that’s not to say there’s no semantic shift in individual branches, like Ancient Greek φρατηρ meaning ‘brother’ in the sense of a fellow member of a community).

    The reason why linguists were interested in lax was because of its consistent form over time and across branches of Indo European and the role it played in the question of the Indo-European homeland - the proposed PIE reconstruction *laks- is pretty much identical to Modern English lax and other cognates, although earlier forms of the word such as Old English leax (ea being pronounced like General American English a in cat followed by the first vowel in father) show that the pronunciation isn’t entirely unchanged.

    But thanks for your comment, it prompted some research to make my morning more interesting!

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Very interesting…

      It’s traced back to about 8000 years, but not through records. Its history is reconstructed by linguists. So, it is often considered one of the oldest consistently used words, but I should not have called it the oldest “recorded word.”

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• sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dying during child birth…

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• UnrepententProcrastinator@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Salmons must relate a lot to hallmarks movies

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