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Gravlax

2 stages from Swedish to English.

Today it means a Scandinavian dish of salmon cured with salt, sugar, and dill
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Stage 1 of 2
grav lax
Swedish · medieval
"buried salmon"
literally buried salmon, from an old method of curing fish by burying it in the ground
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Stage 2 of 2
gravlax
English · 1930s
"salmon cured with salt, sugar, and dill"
adopted directly for the cured salmon dish
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