æcerweorc
Old English
noun
Definitions
- fieldwork, agricultural labour
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *akrawerką compound 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 weorc (work).
Origin
Old English
weorc
Gloss
work
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
✂️ 🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *akrawerką Proto-Germanic
- *akraz Proto-Germanic
- *werką Proto-Germanic
- andweorc Old English
- ciricsceattweorc Old English
- dægweorc Old English
- geweorc Old English
- handweorc Old English
- weorc Old English
- weorcmann Old English
- weorcræden Old English
- weorcsum Old English
- æcer Old English
- æcerceorl Old English
- æcermann Old English
- þeowweorc Old English
- acre Middle English
- aker Middle English
- akr Old Norse
- *ak(k)r gmw-pro