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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for along

5 headwords match “along”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; gelang ranks first.

  1. 1

    gelang

    score 24

    adjective · 10 inflected forms

    along — along of

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine ġelang
    strong nominative singular feminine ġelang
    strong nominative singular neuter ġelang
    strong accusative singular masculine ġelangne
    strong accusative singular feminine ġelange
    strong accusative singular neuter ġelang
  2. 2

    onlong

    score 12

    preposition

    along — along

    • opens the headword's definition
  3. 3

    andlang

    score 12

    adjective · 10 inflected forms

    along — along

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine andlang
    strong nominative singular feminine andlang
    strong nominative singular neuter andlang
    strong accusative singular masculine andlangne
    strong accusative singular feminine andlange
    strong accusative singular neuter andlang
  4. 4

    eac

    score 10

    adverb

    along — along with, together with

    • opens the headword's definition
  5. 5

    ryne

    score 7

    noun, masculine · strong i-stem · 5 inflected forms

    along — course, path along which motion takes place

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ryne
    genitive singular rynes
    dative singular ryne
    accusative singular ryne
    nominative plural rynas
    genitive plural ryna

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “along” 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?

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