croft

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

podere

zolla

campicello

piccola fattoria

campetto

rettangolino

sinonimi

farm

farmstead

garden

hacienda

patch

plantation

ranch

smallholding

small holding

vegetable garden

quillet

Traduzioni

كروفت

κήπος

αγρόκτημα

μικρό αγρόκτημα

μικρός κήπος

απλώνω στον ήλιο

lopin

petite ferme

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kɹɒft/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: croft

Ereditato da inglese antico: croft

Affine olandese medio: kroft

Affine Middle Low German: kroch

Affine scozzese: croft

Ereditato da inglese antico: cruft

Affine olandese medio: croft

Affine olandese: krocht

Affine Middle Low German: krucht

Affine tedesco antico alto: cruft

Affine tedesco medio alto: 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.