Modern English → Old English
Old English word for fountain
7 headwords match “fountain”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 7 strongest follow; wielle ranks first.
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fountain — fountain, spring
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wielle genitive singular wielles, wiellan dative singular wielle, wiellan accusative singular wielle, wiellan nominative plural wiellas, wiellan genitive plural wiella, wiellena -
fountain — spring; fountain
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wiell genitive singular wielles, wielle dative singular wielle accusative singular wiell, wielle nominative plural wiellas, wiella, wielle genitive plural wiella -
fountain — a wellspring, fountain, source
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wiellspring genitive singular wiellspringes dative singular wiellspringe accusative singular wiellspring nominative plural wiellspringas genitive plural wiellspringa -
fountain — font, fountain, spring
- appears in the definition
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fountain — a welling up of water
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ǣwielm genitive singular ǣwielmes, ǣwielme dative singular ǣwielme accusative singular ǣwielm, ǣwielme nominative plural ǣwielmas, ǣwielma, ǣwielme genitive plural ǣwielma -
fountain — a spring (of water), fountain
- appears in the definition
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fountain — well worship (the worship of a well or fountain that is characterized by tying cloth to tr
- appears in the definition
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “fountain” 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 “fountain”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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