English word origin

Etymology of Bench

From Bench [Term?] (bentʂnon).

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Source etymology 1

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name

A language spoken in Ethiopia · The people who speak the Bench language

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From Bench [Term?] (bentʂnon).

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Source etymology 2

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name

A surname.

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* As an English surname, related to bank (“hill”) and bench * As a German surname, spelling variant of Bensch, Benesch, itself Germanized from Czech Beneš.

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Derivation mentionBenešcs

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