Re: fungus = mushroom

>That is, the more fixed is semantics, the more likely we're dealing
>with a Wanderwort.
>
>Apart from the fore mentioned, the only genuine IE word for
>'mushroom' is *g´ombh-o- 'swelling', which has this meaning in
>Slavic, but 'swelling' in Baltic and 'buttocks' in Germanic.
>External cognates can be found in:
>
>Altaic *kHómp[e] 'fungus'
>Uralic *kómpV 'mushroom'

Hungarian gomba "mushroom"; gomb "button" (in clothes);
gömb "orb, sphere, ball, globe"; gömbi "spherical"; gömbszerü
"spheroid"; gömbhal "blowfish/fugu"; gömbölyü "round, rotund, spherical, tubby"; gömbfa "log"; etc.

George