Re: Portuguese, Spanish bode "buck"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> > There's no evidence of this word being Celtic, and I
> > wonder why do you waste your time trying to make up an IE
> > etymology for a non-IE word.
>
> The Oracle has spoken: French dialect <bode> is non-IE!
>

Neither Portuguese bode nor Basque idi, bitiña, pitika.