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Variant of Middle English bakke, of North Germanic origin (akin to Danish aftenbakke and Swedish nattbacka, both now dialectal). Swedish also has nattblacka, and Icelandic has leðurblaka, in which the second element is a derivative of blaka (“to flap”), but it is unclear whether this word is also the source of bakke, backa, etc.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-der.? Celticder.? Old English batt Old French batteinflu. Middle English bat English bat From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to strike, beat, pierce”), similar to the Gaulish source of Latin battuō (“to beat, pound”).

From Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), from Old French batre (“to beat”), from Late Latin battere, from Latin battuere, of uncertain origin; perhaps of Germanic or Celtic origin. In modern English reinterpreted as a verbal derivative of Etymology 2. Compare batter, battery.

Possibly a variant of bate.

Borrowed from French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, form of *bastāre (“to carry”), from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to lift, carry”). Doublet of baton and baston.