Esperanto

Verb

lasis

1. past of lasi

Latgalian

Noun

lasis

1. nominative plural of lase

Latvian

Lasis

Etymology

Traditionally related to Latvian lāse ‎(“drop (of liquid)”) (dialectally attested as lase, lasis), perhaps because of the drop-like little spots on a salmon's scales, from Proto-Indo-European *laḱ- ‎(“to sprinkle, to spatter”). Another suggestion is that this term comes from Proto-Indo-European *lek- ‎(“to jump, to leap”), referring to the mating habits of salmons, swimming and leaping upstream; but the final k leaves the s in the Baltic and Slavic forms unexplained. One would have to assume parallel forms *lek-, *leḱ- for this stem. Cognates include Lithuanian lãšis, lašiša, Old Prussian lalasso (probably a misspelled lasasso), Russian лосо́сь ‎(losósʹ), Czech losos, Polish łosoś, Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (Old High German lahs, German Lachs, Swedish lax, English lax, lox), Tocharian B laksi ‎(“fish”), Ossetian лӕсӕг ‎(læsæg, “salmon”).^[1]

Noun

lasis m (2nd declension)

1. salmon (especially Salmo salar)

   zvejot lašus‎ ― to fish salmon

   svaigs lasis‎ ― fresh salmon

   žāvēts lasis‎ ― dried salmon

   lašu/laša krāsa‎ ― salmon color

Declension

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “lasis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7