The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k years

Re:The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k y... by MagicPropmaker on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:53AM (#19916531)

Here in Israel, where I spend about half my time split between Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley, it's called not by the Hebrew term for "smoked salmon" but by the Yiddish word "לאָקס" (spelled as לוקס in Hebrew)

I was born in Brooklyn, to a Yiddish speaking family. Occasionally I use a Yiddish word in Israel and I'm met by a blank stare. 60% of the Jewish population here came from countries like Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, etc, where nobody knew Yiddish.

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Re:The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k y... by simonh on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:11AM (#19917620)

Could you give a phonetic representation of that, for non-Yiddish speakers? Thanks.

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Re:The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k y... by throwaway_vnkqd on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:18AM (#19918279)

In Yiddish it would be something like "lux" as in "deluxe" or "bucks". In contemporary Israeli Hebrew, that vowel doesn't exist so it would be pronounced somewhere between the "ucks" in "bucks" and the "olks" in "yolks" or "folks".

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Re:The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k y... by js2 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:10PM (#19932625)

Both words are spellings of "lox." Also, lox isn't smoked, it's salt cured. Cold smoked salmon is usually called nova.

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