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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for farm

5 headwords match “farm”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; feormeham ranks first.

  1. 1

    feormeham

    score 15

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

    farm — farm

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular feormehām
    genitive singular feormehāmes
    dative singular feormehāme
    accusative singular feormehām
    nominative plural feormehāmas
    genitive plural feormehāma
  2. 2

    feorm

    score 10

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    farm — food, sustenance, provision; meal, feast, banquet

    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular feorm
    genitive singular feorme
    dative singular feorme
    accusative singular feorme
    nominative plural feorma, feorme
    genitive plural feorma
  3. 3

    ham

    score 8

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 12 inflected forms

    farm — home

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hām
    genitive singular hāmes
    dative singular hām, hāme
    accusative singular hām
    nominative plural hāmas
    genitive plural hāma
  4. 4

    æcer

    score 7

    noun, masculine · 9 inflected forms

    farm — field (specifically one used to grow crops or hold farm animals)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular æcer
    genitive singular æcres
    dative singular æcre
    accusative singular æcer
    nominative plural æcras, æceras
    genitive plural æcra, æcera
  5. 5

    feormian

    score 7

    verb · weak class 2 · 15 inflected forms

    farm — to cleanse, scour, furbish

    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative feormiġe
    first-person singular past indicative feormode
    second-person singular present indicative feormast
    second-person singular past indicative feormodest
    third-person singular present indicative feormaþ
    third-person singular past indicative feormode

How this ranking works

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