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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for chronicle

4 headwords match “chronicle”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; cranic ranks first.

  1. 1

    cranic

    score 15

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    chronicle — chronicle

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular cranic
    genitive singular cranices
    dative singular cranice
    accusative singular cranic
    nominative plural cranicas
    genitive plural cranica
  2. 2

    gear

    score 6

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    chronicle — year

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ġēar
    genitive singular ġēares
    dative singular ġēare
    accusative singular ġēar
    nominative plural ġēar
    genitive plural ġēara
  3. 3

    wice

    score 6

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    chronicle — week

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wice
    genitive singular wican
    dative singular wican
    accusative singular wican
    nominative plural wican
    genitive plural wicena
  4. 4

    dæg

    score 4

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    chronicle — day, (usually) as a period from sunrise to sunset and (scientifically) as a 24-hour period

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular dæġ
    genitive singular dæġes
    dative singular dæġe
    accusative singular dæġ
    nominative plural dagas
    genitive plural daga

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “chronicle” 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.

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