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Bache¹

Where it comes from

* As an English and German surname, spelling variant of Bach.

* As a German and French surname, from a pet form of Bartholomaeus.

* Americanized from the Norwegian and Danish surname Bakke.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4068).

bache²

Where it comes from

Possibly a dialectal form of Middle English *becck, *betch, from to Old English *becc (“stream”), from Proto-Germanic *bakjaz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water, stream”). Cognate with Old Norse bekkr (“brook”). More at beck.

noun baches

  1. obsolete The dale of a stream or rivulet.

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"bache." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bache. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"bache." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bache.

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@misc{bache_2026,
  title = {bache},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bache},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}