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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for antidote

2 headwords match “antidote”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; tyriaca ranks first.

  1. 1

    tyriaca

    score 15

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    antidote — antidote, medicine

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular tyriaca
    genitive singular tyriacan
    dative singular tyriacan
    accusative singular tyriacan
    nominative plural tyriacan
    genitive plural tyriacena
  2. 2

    wyrtdrenc

    score 6

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    antidote — A herbal drink, tea, potion

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wyrtdrenċ
    genitive singular wyrtdrenċes
    dative singular wyrtdrenċe
    accusative singular wyrtdrenċ
    nominative plural wyrtdrenċas
    genitive plural wyrtdrenċa

How this ranking works

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