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Where does “פֿונגוס” come from?

פֿונגוס (Yiddish) comes from Latin fungus, from Latin sfungus.

פֿונגוס (Yiddish): fungus

Definitions

  1. fungus

Ancestry of “פֿונגוס”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfungusa mushroom; a fungus; a fungal growth or...
2Latinsfungus—
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