Modern English → Old English
Old English word for evening
5 headwords match “evening”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; æfnung ranks first.
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evening — evening
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ǣfnung genitive singular ǣfnunge dative singular ǣfnunge accusative singular ǣfnunge nominative plural ǣfnunga, ǣfnunge genitive plural ǣfnunga -
evening — evening
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ǣfen genitive singular ǣfennes dative singular ǣfenne accusative singular ǣfen nominative plural ǣfennas genitive plural ǣfenna -
evening — evening, eventide
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ǣfentīd genitive singular ǣfentīde dative singular ǣfentīde accusative singular ǣfentīde nominative plural ǣfentīda, ǣfentīde genitive plural ǣfentīda -
evening — evening time, eventide
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ǣfentīma genitive singular ǣfentīman dative singular ǣfentīman accusative singular ǣfentīman nominative plural ǣfentīman genitive plural ǣfentīmena -
evening — evening song, evensong
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ǣfendrēam genitive singular ǣfendrēames dative singular ǣfendrēame accusative singular ǣfendrēam nominative plural ǣfendrēamas genitive plural ǣfendrēama
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “evening” 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 “evening”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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