Sálmon

surname · Latin script

Sálmon is a surname written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Sálmon: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sálmon
  1. Middle Englishsamoun(measured from records)
  2. Anglo-Normansaumon(measured from records)
  3. Old Frenchsaumon(measured from records)
  4. Latinsalmō(measured from records)
  5. Old Englishleax(measured from records)

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt, island for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

Sources 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Biblical Names Compiled Database
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

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Evidence(measured from records)

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What does the name Sálmon mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.

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