Modern English → Old English
Old English word for cattle
5 headwords match “cattle”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; orf ranks first.
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cattle — cattle
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular orf genitive singular orfes dative singular orfe accusative singular orf nominative plural orf genitive plural orfa -
cattle — cattle, any commodity
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular cēap genitive singular cēapes dative singular cēape accusative singular cēap nominative plural cēapas genitive plural cēapa -
cattle — cow; bull; ox; head of cattle (any bovine animal)
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hrīþer genitive singular hrīþeres dative singular hrīþere accusative singular hrīþer nominative plural hrīþeru genitive plural hrīþera -
cattle — cattleshed, stall for cattle
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sċypen genitive singular sċypene dative singular sċypene accusative singular sċypene nominative plural sċypena, sċypene genitive plural sċypena -
cattle — money
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular feoh genitive singular fēos dative singular fēo accusative singular feoh
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “cattle” 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 “cattle”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
Candidates derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each entry links to its source page. · CC BY-SA 4.0 and attribution · CC BY-SA 4.0