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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for graveyard

2 headwords match “graveyard”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; lictun ranks first.

  1. 1

    lictun

    score 15

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

    graveyard — graveyard, cemetery

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular līctūn
    genitive singular līctūnes
    dative singular līctūne
    accusative singular līctūn
    nominative plural līctūnas
    genitive plural līctūna
  2. 2

    legerstow

    score 11

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

    graveyard — cemetery, graveyard

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular leġerstōw
    genitive singular leġerstōwe
    dative singular leġerstōwe
    accusative singular leġerstōwe
    nominative plural leġerstōwa, leġerstōwe
    genitive plural leġerstōwa

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “graveyard” 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 “graveyard”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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