Etymograph

English

batch

Batch comes from Old English *bæċċ ‘something baked’.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150*bæċċ‘something baked’reconstructed
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bach
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1551batch

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150*bæċċ‘something baked’reconstructed
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bach
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1551batch

Earliest quotation: 1551, T. Wilson: “Except the baker doe his part also in the…”

The story

Related also to Old English bacan (‘to bake’), Old English ġebæc (‘something baked’), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

Every English word from Old English *bæċċ

Another origin of batch

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰeg-‘flowing water, brook, stream’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰog-i-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*bakiz‘brook, stream’reconstructed
  4. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*baki‘brook’reconstructed
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150bæċ‘brook, stream’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bache
  7. Englishtodaybatch

Today it means

noun The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old English *bæċċ / batch

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