æcerceorl
Old English
noun
Definitions
- a farmer, ploughman
Etymology
Affix 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) + Old English ċeorl (peasant, a hero, male person, a man of inferior class, commoner, husbandman, a churl, a countryman, man, a freeman of the lowest class, layman, husband, rustic).
Origin
Old English
ċeorl
Gloss
peasant, a hero, male person, a man of inferior class, commoner, husbandman, a churl, a countryman, man, a freeman of the lowest class, layman, husband, rustic
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
男, 夫, 士
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *akraz Proto-Germanic
- *karilaz Proto-Germanic
- beoceorl Old English
- ceorlboren Old English
- ceorlfolc Old English
- ceorlian Old English
- ceorlisc Old English
- ceorlleas Old English
- hæmedceorl Old English
- æcer Old English
- æcermann Old English
- æcerweorc Old English
- ċeorl Old English
- acre Middle English
- aker Middle English
- churl Middle English
- akr Old Norse
- *ak(k)r gmw-pro