akr
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
akr
- Romanization of 𐌰𐌺𐍂
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *akraz, whence also Old English æcer, Old High German ackar, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.
Noun edit
akr m (genitive akrs, plural akrar)
- acre
- corn field (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Declension edit
Declension of akr (strong a-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: akur
- Faroese: akur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: åker; (dialectal) åkur, åkr
- → Norwegian Bokmål: åker
- Old Swedish: aker
- Swedish: åker
- Old Danish: akær
- → Norman: acre
References edit
- “akr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English acre.[1] First attested in the 19th century.[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
akr m inan (abbreviation ac)
- acre (English unit of land area)
- akr ziemi ― an acre of land
- akr lasu ― an acre of forest
- tysiące akrów ― thousands of acres
- milion akrów ― a million acres
Declension edit
Declension of akr
References edit
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “akr”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “akr”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[1]
Further reading edit
- akr in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- akr in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “akr”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 18