Modern English → Old English
Old English word for eat
5 headwords match “eat”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; etan ranks first.
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eat — to eat
- 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 ete first-person singular past indicative ǣt second-person singular present indicative itst second-person singular past indicative ǣte third-person singular present indicative itt, it third-person singular past indicative ǣt -
eat — eating
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
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eat — to eat
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative āete first-person singular past indicative āǣt second-person singular present indicative āitst second-person singular past indicative āǣte third-person singular present indicative āitt, āit third-person singular past indicative āǣt -
eat — to eat, feed
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative mēse first-person singular past indicative mēsde second-person singular present indicative mēsest, mēst second-person singular past indicative mēsdest third-person singular present indicative mēseþ, mēst third-person singular past indicative mēsde -
eat — to eat with
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative efnete first-person singular past indicative efnǣt second-person singular present indicative efnitst second-person singular past indicative efnǣte third-person singular present indicative efnitt, efnit third-person singular past indicative efnǣt
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “eat” 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 “eat”, 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