Modern English → Old English
Old English word for fishing
5 headwords match “fishing”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; fiscoþ ranks first.
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fishing — fishing
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fiscoþ genitive singular fiscoþes dative singular fiscoþe accusative singular fiscoþ nominative plural fiscoþas genitive plural fiscoþa -
fishing — the act of fishing
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fiscnoþ genitive singular fiscnoþes dative singular fiscnoþe accusative singular fiscnoþ nominative plural fiscnoþas genitive plural fiscnoþa -
fishing — fishnet, fishing net
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fisċnett genitive singular fisċnettes dative singular fisċnette accusative singular fisċnett nominative plural fisċnett genitive plural fisċnetta -
fishing — a position, especially one that is standing; position of affairs, state, condition, standi
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular steall genitive singular stealles dative singular stealle accusative singular steall nominative plural steallas, steall genitive plural stealla -
fishing — fishweir
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “fishing” 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 “fishing”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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