köken: From Middle High German bach m or f, from Old High German bah, from Proto-West Germanic *baki. Cognate with Dutch beek, English beach and beck. The Middle High German gender was chiefly masculine in Upper German, chiefly feminine in Central German. This is one of the rarer cases in which northern gender usage did not establish itself; perhaps because the masculine agrees with the semantically…
aile: Bachforelle, Bachufer, Bergbach, den Bach runtergehen, Sturzbach, Wildbach
köken: Unknown. Influenced by râu (“river”), compare Megleno-Romanian păroi. Possibly from a Slavic language (compare Bulgarian порој). Alternative theories suggest Albanian përrua, Thracian *parau(t) and Greek *παρροή (*parroḯ), from παραρροή (pararroḯ).
brook (a small stream) · brooklet (a little brook)
çekim: çoğul bække · tamlayan bæks
köken: From Old Norse bekkr (“brook, creek”). Cognate with English beck, Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck.