Bache

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The dale of a stream or rivulet. obsolete
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4068).

Etymology

Etymology 1

* 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.

Etymology 2

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.

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