croft

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

farm

farmstead

garden

hacienda

patch

plantation

ranch

smallholding

small holding

vegetable garden

quillet

Traducciones

كروفت

κήπος

αγρόκτημα

μικρό αγρόκτημα

μικρός κήπος

απλώνω στον ήλιο

lopin

petite ferme

podere

zolla

campicello

piccola fattoria

campetto

rettangolino

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɹɒft/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: croft

Heredado de inglés antiguo: croft

Cognado con neerlandés medio: kroft

Cognado con Middle Low German: kroch

Cognado con escocés: croft

Heredado de inglés antiguo: cruft

Cognado con neerlandés medio: croft

Cognado con neerlandés: krocht

Cognado con Middle Low German: krucht

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: cruft

Cognado con alto alemán medio: 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.