•a field sown or planted with wheat, oats, or barley · a field of standing or growing wheat, oats, or barley, etc.; a crop · a field, ground, soil; arable land
köken: From Middle High German erne f (alongside arn m), from Old High German arn f, from Proto-Germanic *azaniz f. Cognate with Middle Dutch arn, Middle Low German erne, arne, Old English *ern (in rugern). The modern form with an alveolar plosive (first attested in Middle High German ernde f) stems from merger with related Old High German arnōt m, from Proto-Germanic *azanōdaz.
grain crops, cereal crops · a field where such crops are grown
köken: From Common Kypchak *egin "grain crop", from *ekin "cultivated land; crops grown on such land"; from Proto-Turkic *ek- (“to sow”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (ekin, “arable land, tilled land”); Kazakh егін (egın, “grain crops”), Kyrgyz эгин (egin, “grain crops”), Uzbek ekin (“farm crop”), Uyghur ئېكىن (ëkin, “arable land; farm crop”), Turkish ekin (“farm crop”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin collecta. Compare Galician colleita, Asturian collecha, Spanish cosecha, Catalan collita, Occitan culhida, French cueillette. Doublet of coleta.