Modern English → Old English
Old English word for cough
4 headwords match “cough”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; cohhian ranks first.
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cough — to cough
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative cohhiġe first-person singular past indicative cohhode second-person singular present indicative cohhast second-person singular past indicative cohhodest third-person singular present indicative cohhaþ third-person singular past indicative cohhode -
cough — cough
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hwōsta genitive singular hwōstan dative singular hwōstan accusative singular hwōstan nominative plural hwōstan genitive plural hwōstena -
cough — to cough
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative hwōse first-person singular past indicative hwēos second-person singular present indicative hwēst second-person singular past indicative hwēose third-person singular present indicative hwēst third-person singular past indicative hwēos -
cough — to spit out, cough out
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative āhrǣċe first-person singular past indicative āhrǣcte second-person singular present indicative āhrǣċest, āhrǣcst second-person singular past indicative āhrǣctest third-person singular present indicative āhrǣċeþ, āhrǣcþ third-person singular past indicative āhrǣcte
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “cough” 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 “cough”, 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