acre
French
noun
Definitions
- (historical) acre
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse akr derived from Old English æcer (field, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, a field, strip of plough-land, land, an acre, crop, that which is sown, a certain quantity of land, sown land, cultivated land, a definite quantity of land, acre).
Origin
Old English
æcer
Gloss
field, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, a field, strip of plough-land, land, an acre, crop, that which is sown, a certain quantity of land, sown land, cultivated land, a definite quantity of land, acre
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
野, 畑, 原
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acre English
- åker Norwegian Bokmål
- *akraz Proto-Germanic
- åker Norwegian Nynorsk
- æcer Old English
- æcerceorl Old English
- æcermann Old English
- æcerweorc Old English
- acre Middle English
- aker Middle English
- akr Old Norse
- ager Danish
- akur Icelandic
- akur Faroese
- *ak(k)r gmw-pro
- aker Old Swedish
- ager Scanian