Modern English → Old English
Old English word for buck
3 headwords match “buck”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; bucc ranks first.
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buck — buck (male deer)
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular bucc genitive singular bucces dative singular bucce accusative singular bucc nominative plural buccas genitive plural bucca -
buck — he-goat, a buck
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular bucca genitive singular buccan dative singular buccan accusative singular buccan nominative plural buccan genitive plural buccena -
buck — he-goat; buck
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hæfer genitive singular hæferes dative singular hæfere accusative singular hæfer nominative plural hæferas genitive plural hæfera
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “buck” 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 “buck”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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