acre
Scots
[ˈekər], [ˈakər]
noun
Definitions
- An acre unit of measurement
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English aker inherited 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
- Blackacre English
- Greenacre English
- Whiteacre English
- acre English
- acreable English
- acreage English
- acred English
- acreful English
- acreless English
- acreman English
- acreocracy English
- broadacre English
- foreacre English
- hectacre English
- multiacre English
- nanoacre English
- *akraz Proto-Germanic
- æcer Old English
- æcerceorl Old English
- æcermann Old English
- æcerweorc Old English
- acre Middle English
- aker Middle English
- acra Irish
- akr Old Norse
- एकड़ Hindi
- เอเคอร์ Thai
- acer Welsh
- acaire Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- ဧက Burmese
- *ak(k)r gmw-pro
- აკრი Georgian
- একৰ Assamese
- 依格 Chinese
- ekari Swahili
- eka Hausa