Modern English → Old English
Old English word for billow
5 headwords match “billow”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; ear ranks first.
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billow — billow, wave
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ēar genitive singular ēares dative singular ēare accusative singular ēar nominative plural ēaras genitive plural ēara -
billow — wave, billow
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hræn genitive singular hræne dative singular hræne accusative singular hræne nominative plural hræna, hræne genitive plural hræna -
billow — wave; billow
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hærn genitive singular hærne dative singular hærne accusative singular hærne nominative plural hærna, hærne genitive plural hærna -
billow — wave, billow
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular waþem genitive singular waþemes dative singular waþeme accusative singular waþem nominative plural waþemas genitive plural waþema -
billow — a billow
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sǣwielm genitive singular sǣwielmes dative singular sǣwielme accusative singular sǣwielm nominative plural sǣwielmas genitive plural sǣwielma
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “billow” 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 “billow”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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