Modern English → Old English
Old English word for geats
9 headwords match “geats”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 9 strongest follow; Geatas ranks first.
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geats — Geats
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative plural Ġēatas genitive plural Ġēata dative plural Ġēatum accusative plural Ġēatas -
geats — Geats
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative plural Wederas genitive plural Wedera dative plural Wederum accusative plural Wederas -
geats — Geatish; of or relating to the Geats
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine Ġēatisċ strong nominative singular feminine Ġēatisċ strong nominative singular neuter Ġēatisċ strong accusative singular masculine Ġēatisċne strong accusative singular feminine Ġēatisċe strong accusative singular neuter Ġēatisċ -
geats — Weather-Geats, a term for the tribe of Geats used in Beowulf
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative plural Wederġēatas genitive plural Wederġēata dative plural Wederġēatum accusative plural Wederġēatas -
geats — the land occupied by the Geats; Geatland
- appears in the definition
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geats — Hrethel, a king of the Geats mentioned in Beowulf
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative singular Hreþel genitive singular Hreþles dative singular Hreþle accusative singular Hreþel -
geats — Sea-Geats, a term for the tribe of Geats used in Beowulf
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative plural Sǣġēatas genitive plural Sǣġēata dative plural Sǣġēatum accusative plural Sǣġēatas -
geats — ‘Geat-men’, the Geats
- appears in the definition
- proper noun
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geats — War-Geats, a term for the tribe of Geats used in Beowulf
- appears in the definition
- proper noun
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “geats” 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.
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