Are there any languages or dialects not distinguishing between taste and smell?
Possible duplicate of this older and much more general question.
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Possible duplicate of this older and much more general question.
The OHG form of the modern German schmecken "taste" could mean both "taste" and "smell". This is, as the Grimms note, still preserved in Upper German dialects; I have myself heard it being used for "smell" in Lungau, a southern part of Salzburg, where the dialect is somewhat in the middle between South and Middle Bavarian.