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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> What's the etymology of Portuguese bode "he-buck"? It looks
superficially to Germanic *bukka-, but Iberic Romance bode would imply
something loke *botem, *butem- *Vpotem, *Vputem, where V= any vowel (cf.
apotheca > bodega).
>
Possibly the Basque diminutive forms bitika, pit(i)ika, bitiñ,
pitiña, pitina 'goat kid' would fit in.
I think likely a link to NEC *bHe:mtts^y 'deer, mountain goat' (NCED
258), itself a relative of *bukk- (from an earlier *buku- by Kilday's
Law) and related forms in Eastern IE and Altaic.