acker

See also: Acker and Äcker

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kə/
• Rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

1. (dialectal, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 436:

     The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...].

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

1. Obsolete form of acre.

References

• G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

See also

• ackers (“money”)

Anagrams

• Crake, Kacer, crake, creak

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

acker

1. inflection of ackern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch akker, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

Noun

acker m

1. field (for agriculture)
2. acre

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: akker
• Limburgish: akker

Further reading

• “acker”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “acker”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ackar, from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros, possibly from *h₂eǵ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈakkər/

Noun

acker m

1. field; farmland
2. acre (unit of surface area)

Declension

Declension of acker (strong masculine without umlaut)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	acker	die	acker, ackere
genitive	eines	dës	ackers, ackeres	dër	acker, ackere
dative	eime	dëm	acker, ackere	dën	ackern, ackeren
accusative	einen	dën	acker	die	acker, ackere

Related terms

• ackerknëht
• ackerliute
• ackerman
• zacker
• zackere

Descendants

• Cimbrian: akhar
• German: Acker
• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Acker
  • Luxembourgish: Aker
• Yiddish: אַקער (aker)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “acker”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "acker" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English actour, from Latin āctōr; equivalent to ack +‎ -er.

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

1. actor

References

• “acker, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

1. Alternative form of acre

References

• “acker, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Etymology 3

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

1. Shetland form of awkir (“stalk”)

References

• “acker, n.²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.