Acker

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See also: acker and Äcker

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Acker

An English topographical surname from Old English from Old English æcer (“field”).
A German topographical surname from German from Old High German ackar (“field”).
nickname from the Somerset slang for "friend" or "mate", e.g. Acker Bilk

Anagrams

Crake, Kacer, crake, creak

German

Alternative forms

Aker (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German acker, from Old High German ackar (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʔakɐ/
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Noun

Acker m (strong, genitive Ackers, plural Äcker, diminutive Äckerchen n or Äckerlein n)

field (wide, open space used to grow crops)

Declension

Declension of Acker [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Acker	die	Äcker
genitive	eines	des	Ackers	der	Äcker
dative	einem	dem	Acker	den	Äckern
accusative	einen	den	Acker	die	Äcker

Related terms

Further reading

“Acker” in Duden online
Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Acker”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
“Acker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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