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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for beneath

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

  1. 1

    bineoþan

    score 21

    preposition

    beneath — beneath

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
  2. 2

    neoþan

    score 12

    adverb

    beneath — beneath

    • opens the headword's definition
  3. 3

    under-

    score 12

    prefix

    beneath — beneath

    • opens the headword's definition
  4. 4

    under

    score 8

    preposition

    beneath — under, beneath

    • appears in the definition
  5. 5

    underirnan

    score 8

    verb · strong class III · 15 inflected forms

    beneath — to run beneath

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative underirne
    first-person singular past indicative underarn, underorn, underearn
    second-person singular present indicative underirnst
    second-person singular past indicative underurne
    third-person singular present indicative underirnþ
    third-person singular past indicative underarn, underorn, underearn

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “beneath” 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 “beneath”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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