Modern English → Old English
Old English word for burial
5 headwords match “burial”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; byrgels ranks first.
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burial — place of burial, tomb
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular byrġels genitive singular byrġelses dative singular byrġelse accusative singular byrġels nominative plural byrġelsas genitive plural byrġelsa -
burial — burial place: grave, tomb
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular byrġen genitive singular byrġenne dative singular byrġenne accusative singular byrġenne nominative plural byrġenna, byrġenne genitive plural byrġenna -
burial — burying, burial
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular bebyrġing genitive singular bebyrġinge dative singular bebyrġinge accusative singular bebyrġinge nominative plural bebyrġinga, bebyrġinge genitive plural bebyrġinga -
burial — a church-imposed burial fee
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sāwolsċeatt genitive singular sāwolsċeattes dative singular sāwolsċeatte accusative singular sāwolsċeatt nominative plural sāwolsċeattas genitive plural sāwolsċeatta -
burial — deathbed
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular dēaþbedd genitive singular dēaþbeddes dative singular dēaþbedde accusative singular dēaþbedd nominative plural dēaþbedd genitive plural dēaþbedda
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “burial” 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 “burial”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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