At 8:06:53 PM on Sunday, March 18, 2012, Rick McCallister
wrote:
> German funk is usually seen as a borrowing from Latin
> fungus, isn't it?
I can't make sense of this. Are you thinking of <Funke>
'spark'? It certainly isn't from Latin <fungus>. Or are
you thinking of English <funk> 'a strong, unpleasant smell',
from Latin <fumigare> via Old French? Or of something else
altogether?
Brian