Re: Portuguese, Spanish bode "buck"

2013/3/29, dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...>:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...> wrote:
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>> For beccus I had already proposed, following the suggestions by
>> Delamarre 2003: 70 and 80, a root *bek- (or maybe *gWek-) 'sting',
>> unless *bekko-s < *gWet-ko-s (cf. *gWet- 'bulge', Pokorny 1959: 481).
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> The obvious problem with *gWet-ko-s is that *-tk- should have undergone
> metathesis outside Anatolian and Tocharian, as in Celtic for 'bear', unless
> we presume that *-ko- remained productively in use with bare roots.
> Connecting 'beak' with 'bee' seems rather fanciful, even if a beak is pointy
> like a sting.
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> DGK

*Bhr.:
Are there instances of Celtic metathesis of non-palatal
*-tk-sequences? In Reiner Lipp's monumental volumes I can't detect
anyone, but maybe it's simply due to the combined effect of my lack of
time and its lack of a Wortindex...
With *bek I really meant PIE */b/ rather than the bee-root *bhei-