Bache

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See also: bache, bâche, bâché, and Bäche

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Etymology

Proper noun

Bache

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

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaxə/,
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  • Rhymes: -aχə

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
Declension
Declension of Bache
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Bache die Bachen
genitive einer der Bache der Bachen
dative einer der Bache den Bachen
accusative eine die Bache die Bachen
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

Bache m (weak, genitive Bachen, plural Bachen)

  1. (dialectal, otherwise obsolete) bacon
Declension
Declension of Bache
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Bache die Bachen
genitive eines des Bachen der Bachen
dative einem dem Bachen den Bachen
accusative einen den Bachen die Bachen

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