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salmon (s) (noun); salmon, salmons (pl)
1. Jumping or leaping silver fish with pink flesh that live in the sea but which swim up fresh-water rivers to produce their eggs: Salmons are noted for their leaping ability as they swim upstream to spawn or to breed and to deposit their eggs.
2. Etymology: from Old French salmun, from Latin salmonem (nominative case, salmo), "a salmon"; possibly originally "leaper" from salire, "to leap"; although some dismiss this as folk etymology.

The explanation of salmo as "the leaping fish", from salire, "to leap, to jump", is a popular but apparently mistaken origin of the word; however, they do a lot of leaping and jumping as they go up rivers to smaller streams to mate and to deposit their eggs.

—According to Dr. Ernest Klein, in his Klein's Comprehensive
Etymological Dictionary of the English Language:
This entry is located in the following unit: sali-, salt-, -sili-, sult-, -salta- (page 3)