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Is lax a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word lax is a Scrabble US word. The word lax is worth 10 points in Scrabble:
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Is lax a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word lax is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:
L1A1X8
Is lax a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word lax is a Words With Friends word. The word lax is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 4 words from lax according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
lax alx lxa xla axl xal
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word lax. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in lax.
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.
lax (plural laxes)
Borrowed from Latin laxus (“wide, roomy, loose”).
lax (comparative laxer, superlative laxest)
By replacement of the syllable crosse with the cross-shaped letter x.
lax (uncountable)
Learned borrowing from Latin laxus.
lax (feminine laxa, masculine plural laxos, feminine plural laxes)
lax
Borrowed from Latin laxus.
lax (strong nominative masculine singular laxer, comparative laxer, superlative am laxesten)
From Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.
lax m (genitive singular lax, nominative plural laxar)
From Proto-Italic *laks, from the same source as laciō (“entice”).
lax f (genitive lacis); third declension
Third-declension noun.
From Old English leax, from Proto-West Germanic *lahs, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.
lax (plural lax or laxes)
From Proto-Germanic *lahsaz. Cognate with Old English leax, German Lachs, English lox, Old High German lahs, Yiddish לאַקס (laks).
lax m (genitive lax, plural laxar)
From Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.
lax m
Borrowed from Latin laxus.
lax m or n (feminine singular laxă, masculine plural lacși, feminine and neuter plural laxe)
From Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.
The 1000 SEK sense is probably referring to the old pink color of the 1000 SEK banknote, the same color as a salmon. Compare with the similar themed older slang skäring, from skär (“pink”); räka (“prawn”); tegel (“brick”); and röding (“char”), from röd (“red”); all referring to the red-pinkish color of the 1000 SEK banknote. Color and animal-related nicknames for banknotes used to be quite common, e.g. grönsiska (“siskin; 6 riksdaler 32 skillingar”), kanariefågel (“canary bird; 32 skillingar”) and fågel blå (“blue bird; 500 riksdaler”).
An alternative possibility is of a Romani origin, then derived from Hindi लाख (lākh, “100,000”), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa), but such a Romani word has not been attested. Cf. lakan with the same meaning.
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