Modern English → Old English
Old English word for dread
5 headwords match “dread”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; drædan ranks first.
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dread — to dread, fear
- 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 drǣde first-person singular past indicative drēd, dreord second-person singular present indicative drǣtst second-person singular past indicative drēde, dreorde third-person singular present indicative drǣtt, drǣt third-person singular past indicative drēd, dreord -
dread — terror, dread, horror
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular brōga genitive singular brōgan dative singular brōgan accusative singular brōgan nominative plural brōgan genitive plural brōgena -
dread — horror, dread
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ongrisla genitive singular ongrislan dative singular ongrislan accusative singular ongrislan nominative plural ongrislan genitive plural ongrislena -
dread — to be scared (+accusative or genitive of something) (often with a dative reflexive pronoun
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ondrǣde first-person singular past indicative ondrēd, ondreord, ondrǣdde second-person singular present indicative ondrǣtst, ondrǣdest second-person singular past indicative ondrēde, ondreorde, ondrǣddest third-person singular present indicative ondrǣtt, ondrǣt, ondrǣdeþ third-person singular past indicative ondrēd, ondreord, ondrǣdde -
dread — to shudder, to feel horror, to dread, to quake
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative grīse first-person singular past indicative grās second-person singular present indicative grīst second-person singular past indicative grise third-person singular present indicative grīst third-person singular past indicative grās
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “dread” 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 “dread”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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