Re: [microsound] [ot] naming mushrooms...

[Domonkos Nagy <nagydom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hungarian -> gomba (only one name)

best,
Domonkos

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:42:18AM -0400, vze26m98 wrote:
> On 7/23/04 at 2:09 PM, pelagius pelagius <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > That's interesting because Gordon and Valentina Wasson also
> > noted the Russian affinity toward mushrooms.  They were the
> > first americans to search out and identify psychedelic
> > mushrooms cultures in Mexico and they initially became
> > interested in mycology after noticing different cultural
> > attitudes to mushrooms.  Valentina (born in Russia) loved to
> > pick wild mushrooms while Gordon feared them, considering them
> > all to be dangerous and poisonous.
> 
> They pointed out that mycologically-savvy cultures had one name for
> mushrooms, where cultures that feared the great forest had two. For
> example, although this is probably where I'll get in trouble with the
> global list membership:
> 
> english: mushroom, toadstool
> french: champignon, crapaudin
> german: steinpilz, (only one name, right?)
> 
> anybody care to fill in:
> 
> russian:
> italian:
> hungarian:
> spanish:
> finnish:
> 
> all the rest?
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> <tad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
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