Re: OT: Socks (jara: piano)

Markus writes:

>  >The Swedish looks suspiciously like "foot-swamp"-- it it?("swamp-foot"
>would
>>make sense-- GIs in WW2, Korea,Vietnam used to call a very advanced form
>>"jungle rot")
>
>Svamp = mushroom
>but in Swedish, any fungus can be called svamp, even mould and mildew are
>svampar.
The OED proffers that English "swamp" *probably* ultimately comes
from the Germanic base meaning "sponge" or "fungus".

Kou