Modern English → Old English
Old English word for first
5 headwords match “first”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; fyrest ranks first.
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first — first
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine fyrest strong nominative singular feminine fyrest strong nominative singular neuter fyrest strong accusative singular masculine fyrestne strong accusative singular feminine fyreste strong accusative singular neuter fyrest -
first — first
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine forma strong nominative singular feminine forme strong nominative singular neuter forme strong accusative singular masculine forman strong accusative singular feminine forman strong accusative singular neuter forme -
first — first
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine formest strong nominative singular feminine formest strong nominative singular neuter formest strong accusative singular masculine formestne strong accusative singular feminine formeste strong accusative singular neuter formest -
first — first garment (referring to the first clothes made by God after the fall of Adam and Eve)
- opens the headword's definition
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first — first creation, the first created human
- opens the headword's definition
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “first” 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 “first”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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