aker

See also: Aker, åker, and Äker

English

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre
   • 1858, Jonathan Brown Bright, The Brights of Suffolk‎^[1], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 127:

     … crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...

   • 1859, New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register‎^[2], Digitized edition, S.G. Drake, published 2009, page 295:

     That all rates that shall arise upon the Towne shall be layed upon Lands accordinge to every ones p'portion aker for aker of howse lotts and aker for aker of meddowe both alike on this side and both alike on the other side …

Derived terms

• aker-staf

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Anagrams

• Kera, rake, Akre, Kear, KERA, reak, Rake, arke

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *akeR.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aker/ [a.ker]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aker, -er
• Hyphenation: a‧ker

Noun

aker anim

1. he-goat, billy goat

Declension

Declension of aker (anim C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	aker	akerra	akerrak	akerrok
ergative	akerrek	akerrak	akerrek	akerrok
dative	akerri	akerrari	akerrei	akerroi
genitive	akerren	akerraren	akerren	akerron
comitative	akerrekin	akerrarekin	akerrekin	akerrokin
causative	akerrengatik	akerrarengatik	akerrengatik	akerrongatik
benefactive	akerrentzat	akerrarentzat	akerrentzat	akerrontzat
instrumental	akerrez	akerraz	akerrez	akerrotaz
inessive	akerrengan	akerrarengan	akerrengan	akerrongan
locative	—	—	—	—
allative	akerrengana	akerrarengana	akerrengana	akerrongana
terminative	akerrenganaino	akerrarenganaino	akerrenganaino	akerronganaino
directive	akerrenganantz	akerrarenganantz	akerrenganantz	akerronganantz
destinative	akerrenganako	akerrarenganako	akerrenganako	akerronganako
ablative	akerrengandik	akerrarengandik	akerrengandik	akerrongandik
partitive	akerrik	—	—	—
prolative	akertzat	—	—	—

Related terms

• akelarre

Further reading

• “aker”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “aker”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.kər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: aker
• Rhymes: -aːkər

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch aker, eker, haker, from Old Dutch *aker, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], Latin aquarium. The loan from Latin is likely very early, as evidenced by the shifted consonants in Old High German ahhāri, ahari, agari. Doublet of 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 *akraną.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akər/

Verb

aker

1. alternative form of akʷer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• acre

Etymology

From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *akr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakər/

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, acer, aker (obsolete)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: acre
  • → Malay: ekar
  • → Malayalam: ഏക്കർ (ēkkaṟ)
  • → Tamil: ஏக்கர் (ēkkar)
  • → Telugu: ఎకరా (ekarā), ఎకరము (ekaramu)
• Scots: acre, acker, ackre, accre, aacre, awker, yicker
  • →? Scottish Gaelic: acaire, acair
• Yola: aager
• → Irish: acra
• → Welsh: acer

References

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

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• akker, āker (late), ᛆᚴᚽᚱ (runic)

Etymology

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

Noun

aker m

1. field, cultivated land

Declension

Declension of aker (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aker	akrin	akrar	akranir, akraner
accusative	aker	akrin	akra	akrana
dative	akri, akre	akrinum, akrenom	akrum, akrom	akrumin, akromen
genitive	akers	akrsins	akra	akranna

Descendants

• Swedish: åker

Scots

Noun

aker (plural akers)

1. Shetland form of awkir

References

• “aker, n.²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Senhaja de Srair

Root
k-r
3 terms

Alternative forms

• akʷer, akkʷer (Bunsar, Seddat, Zerqet)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ăʔkər (“to steal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akər/

Verb

aker (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴽⴻⵔ)

1. (transitive) to steal

   Synonyms: ṭiyyer (Ketama, Taghzut, Zerqet), sferfer (Zerqet), ceffer (Hmed)

Related terms

• amaker (“thief”)
• (passive) ttaker (“to be stolen”)

References

• Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎^[3], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[4], Paris, France: HAL

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

aker m inan (Cyrillic spelling акер)

1. acre

Vilamovian

Noun

aker m

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