The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
Yes that’s how languages evolve. It’s interesting, isn’t it?
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From what I’ve seen, 8000 years ago it meant salmon. Today, in English it means smoked salmon.
It’s a surprisingly minor shift for 8k years.