different between acker vs aker

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a.k?/
• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

1. (regional, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 436:

     The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...].

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

acker (plural ackers)

1. Obsolete form of acre.

References

• G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

See also

• ackers (“money”)

Anagrams

• Crake, Kacer, crake, creak

German

Verb

acker

1. inflection of ackern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch akker, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros.

Noun

acker m

1. field (for agriculture)
2. acre

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: akker
• Limburgish: akker

Further reading

• “acker”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “acker”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ackar.

Noun

acker m

1. field, acre

Related terms

• ackerknëht
• ackerliute
• ackerman
• zackere, zacker

Descendants

• Cimbrian: akhar
• German: Acker
• Luxembourgish: Aker

English

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre

Derived terms

• aker-staf

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Anagrams

• KERA, Kear, Kera, Rake, rake, reak

Basque

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.ker/

Noun

aker anim

1. he-goat, billy goat

Declension

Related terms

• akelarre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: a?ker
• Rhymes: -a?k?r

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

Related terms

• aquarium

Etymology 2

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

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

(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)

1. to steal

Middle English

Alternative forms

• acre

Etymology

From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?k?r/, /?ak?r/

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
  • Norwegian Bokmål: acre
• Scots: acre, aker, acker
• Yola: aager

References

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

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• akker, ?ker (late)

Etymology

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

Noun

aker m

1. field, cultivated land

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: åker

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

aker m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. acre

Vilamovian

Noun

aker m

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