Etymology

acred

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Today it means: Owning or possessing many acres of land. Full definition →

English acre ← Middle English aker ← Old English æcer
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵros
  3. Proto-Germanic*akraz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*akr
  5. Old Englishæcer
  6. Middle Englishaker
  7. Englishacre
  8. English todayacred

From acre + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.