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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for deathday

2 headwords match “deathday”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; swyltdæg ranks first.

  1. 1

    swyltdæg

    score 15

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

    deathday — deathday

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular swyltdæġ
    genitive singular swyltdæġes
    dative singular swyltdæġe
    accusative singular swyltdæġ
    nominative plural swyltdagas
    genitive plural swyltdaga
  2. 2

    deaþdæg

    score 10

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

    deathday — day of one's death

    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular dēaþdæġ
    genitive singular dēaþdæġes
    dative singular dēaþdæġe
    accusative singular dēaþdæġ
    nominative plural dēaþdagas
    genitive plural dēaþdaga

How this ranking works

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