Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

Regarding 'sima' ~ 'seim':
According to this decade old library Q&A webpage (a butchered Google translation) there supposedly isn't a connection.

( I tried to tweak the translation of the relevant paragraph to a bit more sane direction, caveat lector: )
(I'm not sure if the quote above even makes much sense but it is something)

Yes yes, way OT and no photos... my apologies and all that jazz.

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

Is this fungi enough? It's a polypore I found on a dead tree. I have no idea what kind of bracket fungi it is but it looks nice and it's fairly common in the old Swedish forest where I live.
Sony Xperia X and Jolla stock photo app. Cropped with Pix.

https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/20190718_152819.jpg

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

Thanks for that link! Although I still think the connection seems reasonable, as Finnish has many loanwords of PIE origin, and the fact that it also appears in Estonian and other Finnic languages (each time with a similar meaning) makes it quite likely that the word has belonged to Finnic/Finnish vocabulary for a long time. Of course, similarities between words (especially short ones) can also be purely coincidental, but still. Derivations don't always follow 'the rules', either, and commonly used words in particular are highly resistant to change.

I was doing a little more research, and now I found out that long ago, the PIE 'med' ended up in the Uralic tongues - it was lost in Finnish but continues to exist in Estonian, Hungarian and all of the smaller languages, all with the meaning of 'honey'. Our ancestors must have really, really liked their honey.

(I'll see if I can take a picture of some fungi to offset the whole discussion about honey.)

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

When Freddy Mercury was a young lad, he once picked up a rock and smashed a window. Before his mum managed to run out to stop him, he smahed another one. She shouted at him, "What are you doing? You have broken two windows!"
He replied, "But mum, I want to break three!"

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

Maybe the winning pictures of each month's competition (unless they really don't fit) could be sent to neochapay, who's looking for wallpapers to add to Glacier:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=147

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

I'm quite busy with my new job at the moment. So not to much input on TMO at the moment. Anyway, I'm still around and of course i don't want to miss this month's competition.

Here is my entry:
https://i.ibb.co/qnrHTX2/20190722-185733.jpg

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

Something is rotten with your picture, Fellfrosch :D What phone has it been taken with and when?

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

I hate it when that happens, but at least you could turn it into art! When life hands you mold, make strawberry lemonade.

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

Indeed. I've forgotten to tell more about the pic. It was taken yesterday evening with my Xperia X. Because of the rubbish focus on macro shots, I had to sharpen it afterwards a little bit with darktable.

Re: Camera phone competition July 2019: Fungi
 

Hmm now I know what a fellfrosch could be... it is not Kermit, because the picture looks like a red fellbeere = pelt-berry, seems like when they are fresh, that they get eaten by a pelt-frog. :)

Sorry couldn't resist. I like your name since I saw it the first time, makes me smile.
And good picture with the sunlight from the side.