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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for feel

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

  1. 1

    felan

    score 17

    verb · weak class 1 · 17 inflected forms

    feel — to feel

    • 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 fēle
    first-person singular past indicative fēlde
    second-person singular present indicative fēlest, fēlst
    second-person singular past indicative fēldest
    third-person singular present indicative fēleþ, fēlþ
    third-person singular past indicative fēlde
  2. 2

    fredan

    score 8

    verb · weak class 1 · 18 inflected forms

    feel — to feel

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative frēde
    first-person singular past indicative frēdde
    second-person singular present indicative frēdest, frētst
    second-person singular past indicative frēddest
    third-person singular present indicative frēdeþ, frētt, frēt
    third-person singular past indicative frēdde
  3. 3

    gefelan

    score 8

    verb · weak class 1 · 16 inflected forms

    feel — to feel

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative ġefēle
    first-person singular past indicative ġefēlde
    second-person singular present indicative ġefēlest, ġefēlst
    second-person singular past indicative ġefēldest
    third-person singular present indicative ġefēleþ, ġefēlþ
    third-person singular past indicative ġefēlde
  4. 4

    gefredan

    score 8

    verb · weak class 1 · 17 inflected forms

    feel — to feel

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative ġefrēde
    first-person singular past indicative ġefrēdde
    second-person singular present indicative ġefrēdest, ġefrētst
    second-person singular past indicative ġefrēddest
    third-person singular present indicative ġefrēdeþ, ġefrētt, ġefrēt
    third-person singular past indicative ġefrēdde
  5. 5

    gnornian

    score 6

    verb · weak class 2 · 15 inflected forms

    feel — To grieve, mourn or lament; to feel or express grief

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative gnorniġe
    first-person singular past indicative gnornode
    second-person singular present indicative gnornast
    second-person singular past indicative gnornodest
    third-person singular present indicative gnornaþ
    third-person singular past indicative gnornode

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “feel” 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 “feel”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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