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Old English word for daughter

6 headwords match “daughter”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 6 strongest follow; dohtor ranks first.

  1. 1

    dohtor

    score 24

    noun, feminine · 5 inflected forms

    daughter — daughter

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular dohtor
    genitive singular dohtor
    dative singular dehter
    accusative singular dohtor
    nominative plural dohtor, dohtra, dohtru
    genitive plural dohtra
  2. 2

    fornefe

    score 11

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

    daughter — a nephew's daughter

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular fornefe
    genitive singular fornefan
    dative singular fornefan
    accusative singular fornefan
    nominative plural fornefan
    genitive plural fornefena
  3. 3

    dohtorsunu

    score 9

    noun, masculine · strong u-stem · 3 inflected forms

    daughter — grandson (lit., "daughter's son", specifically the son of one's daughter)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular dohtorsunu
    genitive singular dohtorsuna
    dative singular dohtorsuna
    accusative singular dohtorsunu
    nominative plural dohtorsuna
    genitive plural dohtorsuna
  4. 4

    nefe

    score 8

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

    daughter — granddaughter

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular nefe
    genitive singular nefan
    dative singular nefan
    accusative singular nefan
    nominative plural nefan
    genitive plural nefena
  5. 5

    genift

    score 6

    noun, feminine

    daughter — a daughter of a cousin

    • appears in the definition
  6. 6

    cwen

    score 4

    noun, feminine · strong i-stem · 4 inflected forms

    daughter — queen (a ruling female monarch or a king's wife)

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular cwēn
    genitive singular cwēne
    dative singular cwēne
    accusative singular cwēn, cwēne
    nominative plural cwēne, cwēna
    genitive plural cwēna

How this ranking works

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

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