Modern English → Old English
Old English word for fear
5 headwords match “fear”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; ege ranks first.
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fear — fear
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular eġe genitive singular eġes dative singular eġe accusative singular eġe nominative plural eġas genitive plural eġa -
fear — fear or terror
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular eġesa genitive singular eġesan dative singular eġesan accusative singular eġesan nominative plural eġesan genitive plural eġesena -
fear — fear
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular afyrhtu genitive singular afyrhtu, afyrhte dative singular afyrhtu, afyrhte accusative singular afyrhtu, afyrhte nominative plural afyrhtu, afyrhte genitive plural afyrhta -
fear — fear
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular forhtung genitive singular forhtunge dative singular forhtunge accusative singular forhtunge -
fear — fear of death
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular dēaþes eġe genitive singular dēaþes eġes dative singular dēaþes eġe accusative singular dēaþes eġe nominative plural dēaþes eġas genitive plural dēaþes eġa
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “fear” 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 “fear”, 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