Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. · A quantity of anything produced at one operation. · A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. · A group of bakers.
To aggregate things together into a batch. · To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
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- Inherited-form mentionbachenm
- Inherited-form mention*bæċċang · something baked
- Inherited-form mention*bakkugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*bakkuzgem-pro · baking, baked goods
- Cognate mentionbeckegmh · something baked, pastry, baking, bakery
- Cognate mentionġebæcang · something baked
- Cognate mentiongebaknl
- Cognate mentionGebäckde
- Cognate mentionbakselnl
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