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See also: Aker, åker, and Äker

English

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Noun

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aker (plural akers)

  1. 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 …

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  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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Basque

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Etymology

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From Proto-Basque *akeR.

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Noun

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aker anim

  1. he-goat, billy goat

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

  1. (Southern) bucket
    Synonym: emmer
  2. (historical) metal well bucket
    Synonym: putemmer
  3. (dated, Eastern Netherlands) kettle
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

  1. (archaic) acorn
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

  1. (obsolete) acre

Kabyle

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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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!

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Middle English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakər/

Noun

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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.)

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Old Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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aker m

  1. field, cultivated land

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Scots

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aker (plural akers)

  1. Shetland form of awkir

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Serbo-Croatian

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aker m (Cyrillic spelling акер)

  1. acre

Vilamovian

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aker m

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