Old English · noun
æcer
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- IPA
- /ˈæ.ker/
- Syllables
- ˈæ · ker (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- acrecropsanonymouscolloquylfric'sfieldanimalsgloss
Meaning
-
field (specifically one used to grow crops or hold farm animals)
Æcras faraþ on sumore, swā swā sǣ ȳðiġende.
Fields move in the summer, rippling like the sea.
c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English -
acre (measure of land)
-
early 11th century, anonymous gloss of Ælfric's Latin Colloquy (c. 995)
Ǣlċe dæġe iċ sċeal erian fulne æcer oþþe mā.
Every day I have to plow a full acre or more.
Declension
All forms (9)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γρός (ăgrós), Latin ager, Sanskrit अज्र (ájra).
Descendants
acre
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