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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for beyond

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

  1. 1

    begeondan

    score 19

    adverb

    beyond — beyond, on the other side

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

    geondan

    score 12

    adverb

    beyond — beyond

    • opens the headword's definition
  3. 3

    ungemetlice

    score 12

    adjective

    beyond — beyond measure

    • opens the headword's definition
  4. 4

    geond-

    score 10

    prefix

    beyond — beyond, exceeding; entirely; excessively

    • opens the headword's definition
  5. 5

    geond

    score 9

    adverb

    beyond — yonder

    • listed as an English descendant

How this ranking works

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

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