Modern English → Old English
Old English word for about
10 headwords match “about”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 10 strongest follow; onbutan ranks first.
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about — on, about, round about, on the outside
- appears in the definition
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about — about (concerning)
- opens the headword's definition
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about — about (concerning)
- opens the headword's definition
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about — about, approximately
- opens the headword's definition
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about — about, around, without (+ dative or accusative)
- opens the headword's definition
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about — around, about
- appears in the definition
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about — to care about
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative rece first-person singular past indicative ræc second-person singular present indicative ricst second-person singular past indicative rǣce third-person singular present indicative ricþ third-person singular past indicative ræc -
about — to care about
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative cariġe first-person singular past indicative carode second-person singular present indicative carast second-person singular past indicative carodest third-person singular present indicative caraþ third-person singular past indicative carode -
about — to run about
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ġeirne first-person singular past indicative ġearn, ġeorn, ġeearn second-person singular present indicative ġeirnst second-person singular past indicative ġeurne third-person singular present indicative ġeirnþ third-person singular past indicative ġearn, ġeorn, ġeearn -
about — span (of a hand; used as a measurement, typically considered about nine inches)
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular spann genitive singular spanne dative singular spanne accusative singular spanne nominative plural spanna, spanne genitive plural spanna
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “about” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.
| The English word opens the headword's definition | +10 |
| It appears later in the first definition | +6 |
| It appears in any definition | +3 |
| It is in the headword's links | +2 |
| It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence) | +9 |
| The headword has an inflection table | +3 |
| Part of speech is a proper noun | −5 |
| Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy) | −3 |
| The headword is an alternative form | −6 |
| The first definition is longer than three words | −2 |
A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.
Not one of these?
The match may be a different sense of “about”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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