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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for funeral

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

  1. 1

    ad

    score 15

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    funeral — funeral pyre

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ād
    genitive singular ādes
    dative singular āde
    accusative singular ād
    nominative plural ādas
    genitive plural āda
  2. 2

    licþegnung

    score 15

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    funeral — funeral

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular līcþeġnung
    genitive singular līcþeġnunge
    dative singular līcþeġnunge
    accusative singular līcþeġnunge
    nominative plural līcþeġnunga, līcþeġnunge
    genitive plural līcþeġnunga
  3. 3

    bæl

    score 13

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    funeral — funeral pyre, bonfire

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular bǣl
    genitive singular bǣles
    dative singular bǣle
    accusative singular bǣl
    nominative plural bǣl
    genitive plural bǣla
  4. 4

    adlieg

    score 9

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    funeral — flame of the funeral pile

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ādlīeġ
    genitive singular ādlīeġes
    dative singular ādlīeġe
    accusative singular ādlīeġ
    nominative plural ādlīeġas
    genitive plural ādlīeġa
  5. 5

    adfyr

    score 7

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    funeral — sacrificial fire, funeral fire

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ādfȳr
    genitive singular ādfȳres
    dative singular ādfȳre
    accusative singular ādfȳr
    nominative plural ādfȳr
    genitive plural ādfȳra

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “funeral” 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?

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