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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for bark

5 headwords match “bark”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; beorcan ranks first.

  1. 1

    beorcan

    score 17

    verb · strong class III · 15 inflected forms

    bark — to bark

    • 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 beorce
    first-person singular past indicative bearc
    second-person singular present indicative biercst
    second-person singular past indicative burce
    third-person singular present indicative biercþ
    third-person singular past indicative bearc
  2. 2

    borcian

    score 17

    verb · weak class 2 · 15 inflected forms

    bark — to bark

    • 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 borciġe
    first-person singular past indicative borcode
    second-person singular present indicative borcast
    second-person singular past indicative borcodest
    third-person singular present indicative borcaþ
    third-person singular past indicative borcode
  3. 3

    rind

    score 13

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

    bark — bark (of a tree)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular rind
    genitive singular rinde
    dative singular rinde
    accusative singular rinde
    nominative plural rinda, rinde
    genitive plural rinda
  4. 4

    acrind

    score 13

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

    bark — bark of the oak tree

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ācrind
    genitive singular ācrinde
    dative singular ācrinde
    accusative singular ācrinde
    nominative plural ācrinda, ācrinde
    genitive plural ācrinda
  5. 5

    barc

    score 12

    noun, masculine

    bark — bark

    • opens the headword's definition

How this ranking works

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