Modern English → Old English
Old English word for clothes
5 headwords match “clothes”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; claþ ranks first.
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clothes — cloth
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular clāþ genitive singular clāþes dative singular clāþe accusative singular clāþ nominative plural clāþ, clāþas genitive plural clāþa -
clothes — clothes, clothing
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ġesċierpla genitive singular ġesċierplan dative singular ġesċierplan accusative singular ġesċierplan nominative plural ġesċierplan genitive plural ġesċierplena -
clothes — the act of putting on clothes or dressing
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular clāþung genitive singular clāþunge dative singular clāþunge accusative singular clāþunge nominative plural clāþunga, clāþunge genitive plural clāþunga -
clothes — swaddling cloth; (in the plural), swaddling clothes
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ċildclāþ genitive singular ċildclāþes dative singular ċildclāþe accusative singular ċildclāþ nominative plural ċildclāþas genitive plural ċildclāþa -
clothes — to clothe, to provide with clothes
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative sċrȳde first-person singular past indicative sċrȳdde second-person singular present indicative sċrȳdest, sċrȳtst second-person singular past indicative sċrȳddest third-person singular present indicative sċrȳdeþ, sċrȳtt, sċrȳt third-person singular past indicative sċrȳdde
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “clothes” 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 “clothes”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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