Acker

• Rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)

Acker

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

• Crake, Kacer, crake, creak

• Aker (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔakɐ/

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

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

• “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