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Old English word for aunt

4 headwords match “aunt”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; mome ranks first.

  1. 1

    mome

    score 15

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    aunt — aunt (mother's sister)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular mōme
    genitive singular mōman
    dative singular mōman
    accusative singular mōman
    nominative plural mōman
    genitive plural mōmena
  2. 2

    modrige

    score 9

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    aunt — mother's sister, maternal aunt

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular mōdriġe
    genitive singular mōdriġan
    dative singular mōdriġan
    accusative singular mōdriġan
    nominative plural mōdriġan
    genitive plural mōdriġena
  3. 3

    faþe

    score 7

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    aunt — father's sister, paternal aunt

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular faþe
    genitive singular faþan
    dative singular faþan
    accusative singular faþan
    nominative plural faþan
    genitive plural faþena
  4. 4

    faþu

    score 7

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    aunt — father's sister, paternal aunt

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular faþu
    genitive singular faþe
    dative singular faþe
    accusative singular faþe
    nominative plural faþa, faþe
    genitive plural faþa

How this ranking works

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

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Candidates derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each entry links to its source page. · CC BY-SA 4.0 and attribution · CC BY-SA 4.0