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

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

>
> >Not really, because wineskins and barrels are quite *different*

things.

>
> Yes of course. But one and the same word highly often gets various

meanings

> (semantic shifts) due to chronology, geography, whim, and (funny)

analogies.

> (This reaction of yours is a bit puzzling, since, many of your posts

deal

> exactly with this: AFAIK, you yourself often insist on semantic

shifts.)

>

Yes, but mostly in long-range relationships, not in the same language
(there're exceptions, of course).

> OTOH, most of these examples show that there are circa 3 main meaning
> groups which have determined all these semantic mixtures (virtually in

all

> cited languages) in the {P/B_o/u/ü_T/D/Tz} words.
>

What we've got here is a a bunch of similar sounding words which don't
have necessarily to be related. You know, *homonymy* is the enemy #1 of
comparative linguists.