Modern English → Old English
Old English word for clothing
5 headwords match “clothing”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; hæteru ranks first.
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clothing — clothing
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative plural hæteru genitive plural hætera dative plural hæterum accusative plural hæteru -
clothing — clothing, apparel
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sċeorp genitive singular sċeorpes dative singular sċeorpe accusative singular sċeorp nominative plural sċeorp genitive plural sċeorpa -
clothing — the act of putting on clothes or dressing
- listed as an English descendant
- 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 -
clothing — clothing for a woman; women's dress, female attire
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wīfsċrūd genitive singular wīfsċrūdes dative singular wīfsċryd accusative singular wīfsċrūd nominative plural wīfsċrūd genitive plural wīfsċrūda -
clothing — apparel, dress, clothing
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ġierela genitive singular ġierelan dative singular ġierelan accusative singular ġierelan nominative plural ġierelan genitive plural ġierelena
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “clothing” 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 “clothing”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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