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).