aker

English

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre
   • 1858, Jonathan Brown Bright, The Brights of Suffolk‎, 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, 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

• KERA, Kear, Kera, Rake, rake, reak

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *akeR.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /aker/,

Noun

aker anim

1. he-goat, billy goat

Declension

Related terms

• akelarre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.kər/

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• Hyphenation: a‧ker
• Rhymes: -aːkər

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch aker, eker, haker, from Old Dutch *aker, from Proto-West Germanic , 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)

1. (Southern) bucket

   Synonym: emmer

2. (historical) metal well bucket

   Synonym: putemmer

3. (dated, Eastern Netherlands) kettle

Related terms

• aquarium

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch aker, from Old Dutch *akaran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.

Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (archaic) acorn

Synonyms

• eikel

Etymology 3

Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (obsolete) acre

Kabyle

Etymology

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Verb

aker (intensive aorist yettaker, aorist yaker, preterite yuker, negative preterite yukir, verbal noun tukerḍa)

1. to steal

   Ur ukireɣ ara yiwet n tɣawsa!

   I didn't steal a single thing!

Derived terms

• ttwaker

Middle English

Alternative forms

• acre

Etymology

From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *akr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakər/

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. field (piece of arable land)
2. 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; acer
  • → Irish: acra
  • Norwegian Bokmål: acre
  • Malay: ekar
• Scots: acre, acker, ackre, accre, aacre, awker
  • →? Scottish Gaelic: acaire, acair
• Yola: aager
• → Welsh: acer

References

• “āker, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• akker, āker (late), ᛆᚴᚽᚱ (runic)

Etymology

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.

Noun

aker m

1. field, cultivated land

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: åker

Scots

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. Shetland form of awkir

References

• “aker, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

aker m (Cyrillic spelling акер)

1. acre

Vilamovian

Noun

aker m

1. field (wide, open space used to grow crops)