lax – English noun declension

Noun: lax

Singular	lax
Plural	laxes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like lax

penniless-bench, wintergrass, kitchen pass, grey fox, grey box, trailer hitch, paleness, loaded march, Tush Push, horribleness, slaughteress, chapparvovirus, greenwax, royal flush, crab cactus, geostress, syngas, wintercress, ichthys, ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox. See: Middle English Nouns 'lax', Old English Nouns 'leax', German Nouns 'Lachs', Danish Nouns 'laks', Swedish Nouns 'lax', Icelandic Nouns 'lax', Latvian Nouns 'lasis'.

Verbs referencing "lax"

Latvian Nouns lasis.