Re: Portuguese, Spanish bode "buck"

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

>
> You surely weren't expecting useful discussion from Tavi,
> were you? He doesn't want to do linguistics: he wants to
> make grand, sweeping claims about prehistory, which he then
> 'supports' with pre-scientific pseudo-linguistics.
>

No more than Gimbutas, Mallory, Anthony & Co. with their warfare Kurgan
PIE-speakers who were supposed to have conquered most of Europe with the
aid of horse-driven chariots. See for example the introduction of this
recent (2012) article by Guus Kroonen:
http://www.academia.edu/2604857/An_Akkadian_loanword_in_Pre-Greek_on_the\
_etymology_of_Greek_and_garlic