Modern English → Old English
Old English word for being
4 headwords match “being”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; wist ranks first.
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being — being, existence
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wist genitive singular wiste dative singular wiste accusative singular wist, wiste nominative plural wiste, wista genitive plural wista -
being — being, substance, presence
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ætwist genitive singular ætwiste dative singular ætwiste accusative singular ætwist, ætwiste nominative plural ætwiste, ætwista genitive plural ætwista -
being — being, substance; sustenance, food
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular edwist genitive singular edwiste dative singular edwiste accusative singular edwist, edwiste nominative plural edwiste, edwista genitive plural edwista -
being — thing
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wiht genitive singular wihte, wihtes dative singular wihte accusative singular wiht, wihte nominative plural wihte, wihta, wihtu genitive plural wihta
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “being” 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?
The match may be a different sense of “being”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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