Re: Portuguese, Spanish bode "buck"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

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> Could bode be related to *bHug^o- through Alanic or Lusitanian?
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I cannot say what Alanic would do, but Lusitanian is securely a centum language and I would expect PIE *-g^- to be rendered as *-g-.

I agree with Bhr. that Celtic is the most likely source of _bode_, but I have some formal and semantic differences with his explanation.

DGK