Bache

• 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.

Bache

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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bache”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 79.

• Beach, beach

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaxə/, [ˈba.χə]

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• Rhymes: -aχə

From Middle High German bache, from Old High German bahha, which is derived from the masculine (etymology 2 below). Cognate with English back.

Bache f (genitive Bache, plural Bachen, masculine Keiler or Bacher)

1. A wild sow, female wild boar
   • 2017, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mitsch, “Tiere und Strafrecht”, in Juristische Ausbildung, number 12, →DOI, page 1397:

     Auf nächtlicher Fahrt durch den Berliner Grunewald galoppiert dem Pkw-Fahrer F plötzlich eine Wildsau vor die Stoßstange. F kann den Zusammenstoß nicht vermeiden. Das Auto ist im Frontbereich zerbeult, die Bache ist tot.

     On a nightly ride through the Grunewald in Berlin suddenly a wild sow galopps right up to bumper of the car driver F. F cannot prevent the crash. The car is battered in the front-end, the sow is dead.

• Wildschwein

From Middle High German bache, from Old High German bahho, strong-declension variant of Old High German bah, from Proto-West Germanic *bak.

Bache m (weak, genitive Bachen, plural Bachen)

1. (dialectal, otherwise obsolete) bacon

• “Bache” in Duden online
• “Bache” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Bache”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• “Bache” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache