different between acker vs wacker

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

Adjective

wacker

1. comparative form of wack: more wack

Anagrams

• awreck, cawker

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wacker, Old High German wacchar. Cognate with Old English wacor (whence dialectal English waker), Old Norse wakr, Dutch wakker and possibly German Low German wacker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vak?/
• Hyphenation: wa?cker; pre-1996: wak?ker

Adjective

wacker (comparative wackerer, superlative am wackersten) (dated)

1. brave

   Synonyms: mutig, tapfer

2. honest, reputable

   Synonyms: rechtschaffen, ehrlich, anständig, redlich
3. efficient

   Synonym: tüchtig

4. alert, vigilant, waker

   Synonym: wachsam

References

Further reading

• “wacker” in Duden online
• “wacker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache