Re: fungus = mushroom

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "patrick" <dicoceltique@...> wrote:

>
> hello
> does exist any connexion between the (Pre-)-Latin Fungus (unknow origin) and Old Greek Spo(n)gos(unknow origin) = mushroom
>

Yes, this is a Wanderwort of Uralic origin *paNka 'fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)', an hallucinogenous mushroom eated in shamanic rites of Siberian cultures and elsewhere.