Magyar gombanevek és -névmagyarázatok a Kárpát-medencében
Hungarian mushroom names and their explanations in the Carpathian Basin

Author(s): Győző Zsigmond
Subject(s): Language acquisition, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Summary/Abstract: The author has spent more than three decades of fieldwork cataloguing the Hungarian ethnographic regions of the Carpathian Basin. His collection includes nearly 1,700 folk names of mushrooms, which have been supplemented by the collections of others. He classifies the available material based on their structure, use, and the motives for naming them. The number and diversity of Hungarian folk names of mushrooms, as well as the numerous explanations of mushroom names that provide many interesting additions, are unparalleled even in international comparison.

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