Modern English → Old English
Old English word for ancient
10 headwords match “ancient”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 10 strongest follow; geodagas ranks first.
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ancient — ancient times, days of yore
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative plural ġeōdagas genitive plural ġeōdaga dative plural ġeōdagum accusative plural ġeōdagas -
ancient — ancient times, days of yore
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative plural ġeārdagas genitive plural ġeārdaga dative plural ġeārdagum accusative plural ġeārdagas -
ancient — old, ancient
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine gamol strong nominative singular feminine gamol strong nominative singular neuter gamol strong accusative singular masculine gamolne strong accusative singular feminine gamole strong accusative singular neuter gamol -
ancient — an ancient creation
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fyrnweorc genitive singular fyrnweorces dative singular fyrnweorce accusative singular fyrnweorc nominative plural fyrnweorc genitive plural fyrnweorca -
ancient — ancient hostility
- opens the headword's definition
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ancient — an ancient conflict
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fyrnġeflit genitive singular fyrnġeflites dative singular fyrnġeflite accusative singular fyrnġeflit nominative plural fyrnġeflitu genitive plural fyrnġeflita -
ancient — old
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine eald strong nominative singular feminine eald strong nominative singular neuter eald strong accusative singular masculine ealdne strong accusative singular feminine ealde strong accusative singular neuter eald -
ancient — former
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine fyrn strong nominative singular feminine fyrn strong nominative singular neuter fyrn strong accusative singular masculine fyrne strong accusative singular feminine fyrne strong accusative singular neuter fyrn -
ancient — Zion (a hill in West Jerusalem, in Israel, on which ancient Jerusalem was partly built; a
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular Syon genitive singular Syones dative singular Syone accusative singular Syon -
ancient — an antiquarian, one who writes about ancient matters
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ealdwrītere genitive singular ealdwrīteres dative singular ealdwrītere accusative singular ealdwrītere nominative plural ealdwrīteras genitive plural ealdwrītera
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “ancient” 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 “ancient”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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