Portuguese, Spanish bode "buck"

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 71088
Date: 2013-03-15

What's the etymology of Portuguese bode "he-buck"? It looks superficially to Germanic *bukka-, but Iberic Romance bode would imply something loke *botem, *butem- *Vpotem, *Vputem, where V= any vowel (cf. apotheca > bodega).

JS Lopes