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: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 79.

• Beach, beach

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaxə/, [ˈba.χə]

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• Rhymes: -aχə

From Late Middle High German bache f (“fattened sow, female porker”), by gender change from the word in etymology 2 below; see Bachen. The sense developed from “bacon” via “slaughtered pig” to “porker”. The modern use is from hunters’ jargon.

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

1. A wild sow, female wild boar

   Synonym: Wildsau

   • 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

See the main lemma.

Bache m (weak, genitive Bachens or Bachen, plural Bachen)

1. Alternative form of Bachen (chiefly dialectal term for “bacon”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Bache

1. (archaic) dative singular of Bach

• “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