croft

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
2. (archaic, transitive) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

Sinònims

farm

farmstead

garden

hacienda

patch

plantation

ranch

smallholding

small holding

vegetable garden

quillet

Traduccions

كروفت

κήπος

αγρόκτημα

μικρό αγρόκτημα

μικρός κήπος

απλώνω στον ήλιο

lopin

petite ferme

podere

zolla

campicello

piccola fattoria

campetto

rettangolino

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɹɒft/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: croft

Heretat de anglès antic: croft

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: kroft

Cognat amb Middle Low German: kroch

Cognat amb escocès: croft

Heretat de anglès antic: cruft

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: croft

Cognat amb neerlandès: krocht

Cognat amb Middle Low German: krucht

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: cruft

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: kruft

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”).
The verb is derived from the noun.