Mushrooms
Mushroom is in Bavaria and Austria common dialect name for large mushrooms . In Swiss language one speaks of Schwämmli or Schwümm . In the Vogtland dialect one speaks of sponge , in other East Franconian dialects one says sponge and in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialects sponge.
This does not mean all mushrooms in the biological sense, but the fruiting bodies of edible mushroom species (see edible mushroom ) and their inedible or poisonous relatives (see poison mushroom ). Exemplary is the name chanterelle for " Chanterelle ".
The underlying word sponge comes from Old High German swamp , Old English swamm meaning “mushroom, sea sponge ” and is related to swamp and Greek somphós (“spongy, porous”).
Low German it is except when in the first meaning dry rot by from Latin Boletus resulting fungal been displaced. In Bavarian it has survived in the diminutive as a mushroom , in Alemannic it was umlauted ä or in sound shift ü .
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- "Schwammerl" was also a nickname of the composer Franz Schubert .
- Der Schwammerlkönig is the title of a 1988 television series for Bavarian Radio.
- The canopy of Munich Central Station is popularly known as the “mushroom”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Zick: Schwammerl-Zoff at the train station . Evening newspaper, January 17, 2017.