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2019-07-11 , 10:50
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To be fair, "half-toilet" isn't really an accurate description of a big bottle either. Nice mead, though! Speaking of mead, it's interesting how one half of the Indo-European speakers started using 'med' exclusively for honey, and the other half exclusively for the drink made of it.
And again finns got a bit sidetracked in the wording process and hence we have "hunaja" for honey and "sima" for mead.
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And again finns got a bit sidetracked in the wording process [...]
Does that surprise you? Finns are not Indo-European speakers
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Had a serious windstorm here yesterday. It didn't hit my block too hard*, and only knocked some dead wood out of my trees. I'd hoped to find some good fungus on the debris, but only a tiny, not very photogenic, wood ear and a little bit of lichen but not enough for a pretty picture. But I persist in looking for picture-worthy fungi in everywhere.

*Next block down, a very short walk away, had ~60 year old oak trees destroyed by a microburst. Yikes!
 

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And again finns got a bit sidetracked in the wording process and hence we have "hunaja" for honey and "sima" for mead.
I looked up the etymology and as it turns out, not only 'hunaja', but also 'sima' is a loanword, both have Germanic roots! Crazy suomalaiset... (with all of those cases, how do you not have a vocative?)
 

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Originally Posted by nthn View Post
I looked up the etymology and as it turns out, not only 'hunaja', but also 'sima' is a loanword, both have Germanic roots! Crazy suomalaiset... (with all of those cases, how do you not have a vocative?)
I understand "hunaja" and honey as loanword but "sima" vs. what?

That is also true that "hullut suomalaiset" are crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwIcXDnK8c <- Tell's more than few words, also to Germans, of that

Sorry OT, my Fungi-picture is nearly ready...
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I see a lot of fun guys in this thread but not many fungi.
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I see a lot of fun guys in this thread but not many fungi.
As always ! LOL
 

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Originally Posted by nthn View Post
To be fair, "half-toilet" isn't really an accurate description of a big bottle either. Nice mead, though! Speaking of mead, it's interesting how one half of the Indo-European speakers started using 'med' exclusively for honey, and the other half exclusively for the drink made of it.
Not exactly true. In Russian language, 'myod' is both honey (the most widespread meaning of the word) and alcoholic drink made of honey, water and juice (archaic, mostly remembered due to fairy tales; but I think our old USSR cookbook does contain a recipe for drink made out of honey and named with the same word; granted, there are many different recipes, and different names, for drinks made with addition of honey).

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As always ! LOL
And here is both!

Most probably not the best pic (was in a rush with hungry kids)
BUT definitely my most desired fung(h)i




https://m.imgur.com/a/PrB7rbe
Taken with Samsung A70 and some default Android picture editor post-processing wizard
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I understand "hunaja" and honey as loanword but "sima" vs. what?
Something like '*saima-' (nectar/honey) in Proto-Germanic, which became 'Seim' (syrup, apparently fallen into disuse in favour of 'Sirup', which is actually an Arabic loanword) in High German, or 'zeem' (honey) in West-Flemish.

'*saima-' itself apparently comes from '*saigma-', which in turn would stem from PIE '*soikʷ-mó-', at which point you notice that Slavic 'sok' (juice) has the same origins.

That being said, if you look at etymologies long enough, you can prove anything.
 

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