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Old English word for awaken

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

  1. 1

    awæcnan

    score 17

    verb · weak class 1 · 18 inflected forms

    awaken — to awaken

    • appears in the definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative awæcne
    first-person singular past indicative awæcnde, awæcnede
    second-person singular present indicative awæcnest
    second-person singular past indicative awæcndest, awæcnedest
    third-person singular present indicative awæcneþ
    third-person singular past indicative awæcnde, awæcnede
  2. 2

    awreccan

    score 8

    verb · weak class 1 · 19 inflected forms

    awaken — to awaken

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative āwreċċe
    first-person singular past indicative āwrehte, āwreahte
    second-person singular present indicative āwreċest
    second-person singular past indicative āwrehtest, āwreahtest
    third-person singular present indicative āwreċeþ
    third-person singular past indicative āwrehte, āwreahte
  3. 3

    awæcnian

    score 8

    verb · weak class 2 · 15 inflected forms

    awaken — to awaken

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative awæcniġe
    first-person singular past indicative awæcnode
    second-person singular present indicative awæcnast
    second-person singular past indicative awæcnodest
    third-person singular present indicative awæcnaþ
    third-person singular past indicative awæcnode

How this ranking works

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