aker
English
Noun
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
- aker-staf
References
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Anagrams
Basque
Etymology
From Proto-Basque *akeR.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
- IPA(key): /aker/, [a.ke̞r]
Noun
aker anim
- he-goat, billy goat
Declension
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | — |
Related terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaː.kər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: a‧ker
- Rhymes: -aːkər
Etymology 1
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
aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
- (Southern) bucket
- Synonym: emmer
- (historical) metal well bucket
- Synonym: putemmer
- (dated, Eastern Netherlands) kettle
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch aker, from Old Dutch *akaran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.
Noun
aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
- (archaic) acorn
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Noun
aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
- (obsolete) acre
Kabyle
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
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
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *akr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakər/
Noun
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
- English: acre, aker (archaic), acer (-er form, chiefly UK)
- Scots: acre, acker, ackre, accre, aacre, awker, yicker
- Yola: aager
- → Irish: acra
- → Welsh: acer
References
- “āker, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.
Noun
aker m
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: åker
Scots
Noun
aker (plural akers)
References
- “aker, n.2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
aker m inan (Cyrillic spelling акер)
Vilamovian
Noun
aker m
- field (wide, open space used to grow crops)