Thread: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
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2019-07-11 , 18:20
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
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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