Old English · declension class
irregular
5 headwords in this class, from 5 records in the source data. The table below is a complete paradigm from gefær; every member is listed further down.
- Class
- irregular
- Headwords
- 5
- Source records
- 3 of 5 across 2 merged spellings
- Entries online
- 5 of 5
- Representative
- gefær · noun
Declension of gefær
8 cells in the complete table, rebuilt from 8 source rows. Endings vary with stem and gender inside a class, so treat this as the shape of the paradigm, not as a suffix list.
All 28 classs by size
Share of the 7,912 records across the 28 classs Wiktionary tags. Counts are records, so a headword with two table-bearing senses counts twice.
| Class | Headwords | Records |
|---|---|---|
| strong a-stem | 3,296 | 3,378 |
| strong ō-stem | 1,760 | 1,779 |
| weak | 901 | 917 |
| strong i-stem | 543 | 545 |
| weak n-stem | 532 | 538 |
| strong ja-stem | 306 | 308 |
| strong consonant stem | 150 | 151 |
| strong nd-stem | 109 | 110 |
| strong u-stem | 49 | 49 |
| strong | 25 | 26 |
| strong wa-stem | 24 | 24 |
| strong īn-stem | 24 | 24 |
| strong u-stem/a-stem | 14 | 14 |
| strong z-stem | 12 | 12 |
| strong wō-stem | 7 | 7 |
| consonant stem, irregular | 5 | 5 |
| irregular | 5 | 5 |
| strong wō/ō-stem | 4 | 4 |
| ja-stem | 3 | 3 |
| strong class 6 | 3 | 3 |
| indeclinable | 2 | 2 |
| strong class 3 | 2 | 2 |
| i-stem | 1 | 1 |
| n- stem, irregular | 1 | 1 |
| participle | 1 | 1 |
| Strong u-stem, irregular | 1 | 1 |
| u-stem | 1 | 1 |
| ō-stem | 1 | 1 |
Headwords = distinct spellings; records = source rows (a headword with two table-bearing senses counts twice). The class you are reading is highlighted.
All 5 headwords
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How a class is assigned
The label is Wiktionary's own inflection-table type for the headword, taken from the
kaikki.org extraction of Wiktionary. It is not inferred by this site. Where Wiktionary uses the same
class with different capitalisation or line breaks, the spellings are merged here; this page
represents these source strings:
irregular (3) , Irregular (2) .
Together they hold 5 records.
Strong nouns keep a thematic vowel (a, ō, i, u …) that shows up in the endings; weak nouns use a nasal stem (-an, -n-) in most cases. A headword can be tagged in more than one class when it has several table-bearing senses, so the per-class headword counts overlap.
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