aker

See also: Aker and åker

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

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *akeŕ, from *ake- (“male animal”) (compare aketz (“boar”)).

Noun

aker

  1. he-goat, billy goat

Declension

"aker"
(animate noun) declension
indefinite singular plural
absolutiveakerakerraakerrak
ergativeakerrekakerrakakerrek
dativeakerriakerrariakerrei
genitiveakerrenakerrarenakerren
comitativeakerrekinakerrarekinakerrekin
causativeakerrengatikakerrarengatikakerrengatik
benefactiveakerrentzatakerrarentzatakerrentzat
instrumentalakerrezakerrazakerrez
inessiveakerrenganakerrarenganakerrengan
allativeakerrenganaakerrarenganaakerrengana
terminativeakerrenganainoakerrarenganainoakerrenganaino
directiveakerrenganantzakerrarenganantzakerrenganantz
destinativeakerrenganakoakerrarenganakoakerrenganako
ablativeakerrengandikakerrarengandikakerrengandik
partitiveakerrik
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prolativeakertzat
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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaː.kər/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: a‧ker

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch aker, eker, haker, from Old Dutch *aker, from Latin 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

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

Etymology 3

Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

  1. (obsolete) acre

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

aker m

  1. field, cultivated land

Declension

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

aker m (Cyrillic spelling акер)

  1. acre

Vilamovian

Noun

aker m

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