Modern English → Old English
Old English word for girdle
4 headwords match “girdle”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; fetel ranks first.
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girdle — girdle, belt
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fetel genitive singular feteles, fetles dative singular fetele, fetle accusative singular fetel nominative plural fetelas, fetlas genitive plural fetela, fetla -
girdle — belt
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular gyrdel genitive singular gyrdles dative singular gyrdle accusative singular gyrdel nominative plural gyrdlas genitive plural gyrdla -
girdle — to ungird, take or strip off a girdle, take off what is girded
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ungyrde first-person singular past indicative ungyrde second-person singular present indicative ungyrdest, ungyrst, ungyrtst second-person singular past indicative ungyrdest third-person singular present indicative ungyrdeþ, ungyrt third-person singular past indicative ungyrde -
girdle — to girdle, enclose; begird
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative forgyrde first-person singular past indicative forgyrde second-person singular present indicative forgyrdest, forgyrst, forgyrtst second-person singular past indicative forgyrdest third-person singular present indicative forgyrdeþ, forgyrt third-person singular past indicative forgyrde
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “girdle” 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 “girdle”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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