Bozzan, butt, butz ... (Re: Portuguese, Spanish bode "buck")

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ufnkex" <guestuser9357@...> wrote:

>
> Aves ESPANTAJO" < MHG butze "Poltergeist, poltergeist, relleno
> humano gestalt; Larve [mask]" < Butz < butt.
>
> > This would correspond to Spanish embutir (older embotir) 'to stuff'

and

> > bota, dial. boto 'wineskin' < Vulgar Latin buttis. The original

meaning

> > would have been 'trunk of the body', from which wineskins were made:
>
> Yes, but this would be another family of words. German has some
> belonging to this group: die Bütte (various kinds of barrels or

other

> wooden recipiens, incl. for washing) + the variant die Butte. As well
> as der Bottich. (Their synonym: der Zuber; der Kübel.)
>

Not really, because wineskins and barrels are quite *different* things.