aker
English edit
Noun edit
aker (plural akers)
- Obsolete spelling of acre
- 1858, Jonathan Brown Bright, The Brights of Suffolk[1], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 127:
- … crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...
- 1859, New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register[2], Digitized edition, S.G. Drake, published 2009, page 295:
- That all rates that shall arise upon the Towne shall be layed upon Lands accordinge to every ones p'portion aker for aker of howse lotts and aker for aker of meddowe both alike on this side and both alike on the other side …
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Anagrams edit
Basque edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Basque *akeR.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
aker anim
- he-goat, billy goat
Declension edit
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | aker | akerra | akerrak |
ergative | akerrek | akerrak | akerrek |
dative | akerri | akerrari | akerrei |
genitive | akerren | akerraren | akerren |
comitative | akerrekin | akerrarekin | akerrekin |
causative | akerrengatik | akerrarengatik | akerrengatik |
benefactive | akerrentzat | akerrarentzat | akerrentzat |
instrumental | akerrez | akerraz | akerrez |
inessive | akerrengan | akerrarengan | akerrengan |
locative | — | — | — |
allative | akerrengana | akerrarengana | akerrengana |
terminative | akerrenganaino | akerrarenganaino | akerrenganaino |
directive | akerrenganantz | akerrarenganantz | akerrenganantz |
destinative | akerrenganako | akerrarenganako | akerrenganako |
ablative | akerrengandik | akerrarengandik | akerrengandik |
partitive | akerrik | — | — |
prolative | akertzat | — | — |
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Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch aker, eker, haker, from Old Dutch *aker, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], Latin aquarium. The loan from Latin is likely very early, as evidenced by the shifted consonants in Old High German ahhāri, ahari, agari. Doublet of aquarium.
Noun edit
aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
- (Southern) bucket
- Synonym: emmer
- (historical) metal well bucket
- Synonym: putemmer
- (dated, Eastern Netherlands) kettle
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch aker, from Old Dutch *akaran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.
Noun edit
aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
Synonyms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
Kabyle edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb edit
aker (intensive aorist yettaker, aorist yaker, preterite yuker, negative preterite yukir, verbal noun tukerḍa)
- to steal
- Ur ukireɣ ara yiwet n tɣawsa!
- I didn't steal a single thing!
Derived terms edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *akr.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aker (plural akers)
- field (piece of arable land)
- acre (land measure of 160 rods square (though actually varying in size, both regionally and in time), usually described as 40 rods/1 furlong long and 4 rods wide.)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “āker, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.
Noun edit
aker m
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- Swedish: åker
Scots edit
Noun edit
aker (plural akers)
References edit
- “aker, n.2” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
aker m (Cyrillic spelling акер)
Vilamovian edit
Noun edit
aker m
- field (wide, open space used to grow crops)