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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for aurochs

3 headwords match “aurochs”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; ur ranks first.

  1. 1

    ur

    score 15

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

    aurochs — aurochs

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ūr
    genitive singular ūres
    dative singular ūre
    accusative singular ūr
    nominative plural ūras
    genitive plural ūra
  2. 2

    wesend

    score 13

    noun, masculine · 5 inflected forms

    aurochs — aurochs, bison, buffalo, wild ox

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wesend
    genitive singular wesendes
    dative singular wesende
    accusative singular wesend
    nominative plural wesend
    genitive plural wesenda
  3. 3

    score 4

    letter

    aurochs — the second letter of the Anglo-Frisian (5th–9th c.) and Old English (9th–13th c.) runic al

How this ranking works

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