lax

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

A salmon.

Adj

1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
2. Loose; not tight or taut.
3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
4. Describing an associative monoidal functor.
5. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
6. (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

Sinonieme

loose

slack

careless

remiss

lenient

negligent

neglectful

loose-fitting

sloppy

baggy

extensive

absent-minded

huge

inattentive

flaccid

abundant

affluent

ample

aplenty

broad

bulky

capacious

commodious

copious

limp

open

plentiful

profuse

relaxed

☺️

rich

🤑

sizable

spacious

thoughtless

vast

voluminous

wide

weak

reckless

relax

lenis consonants

full

dirty

salmon

not exact

flabby

enlarged

slovenly

slow

spread apart

sparse

Vertalings

laxo

frouxo

lasso

😩

locker

lasso

😫

trascurato

négligent

flojo

lose

suelto

🆓

los

negligente

lax

αμελής

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/læks/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: lax

Geërf van Old English: leax

Verwante met Middle Dutch: lacks

Verwante met Middle Low German: las

Verwante met Duits: Lachs

Verwante met Noors: laks

Verwante met Deens: laks

Verwante met Sweeds: lax

Verwante met Yslands: lax

Verwante met Litaus: lašišà

Verwante met Letties: lasis

Verwante met Russies: лосо́сь

Verwante met Albanees: leshterik

In summary

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.