Modern English → Old English
Old English word for deer
5 headwords match “deer”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; deor ranks first.
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deer — wild animal, beast
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine dēor strong nominative singular feminine dēor strong nominative singular neuter dēor strong accusative singular masculine dēorne strong accusative singular feminine dēore strong accusative singular neuter dēor -
deer — deer
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular heorot genitive singular heortes dative singular heorte accusative singular heorot nominative plural heortas genitive plural heorta -
deer — deer
- opens the headword's definition
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deer — deer park: an enclosed area containing wildlife, set up for nobles to hunt in
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular dēortūn genitive singular dēortūnes dative singular dēortūne accusative singular dēortūn nominative plural dēortūnas genitive plural dēortūna -
deer — roe deer, roebuck
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular rā genitive singular rān dative singular rān accusative singular rān nominative plural rān genitive plural rāna
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “deer” 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 “deer”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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