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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for hammer

4 headwords match “hammer”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 4 strongest follow; hamor ranks first.

  1. 1

    hamor

    score 24

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

    hammer — hammer

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hamor
    genitive singular hamores
    dative singular hamore
    accusative singular hamor
    nominative plural hamoras
    genitive plural hamora
  2. 2

    bietel

    score 15

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

    hammer — hammer

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular bīetel
    genitive singular bīetles
    dative singular bīetle
    accusative singular bīetel
    nominative plural bīetlas
    genitive plural bīetla
  3. 3

    slic

    score 12

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

    hammer — hammer

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sliċ
    genitive singular sliċes
    dative singular sliċe
    accusative singular sliċ
    nominative plural sliċas
    genitive plural sliċa
  4. 4

    sciphamor

    score 9

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

    hammer — a hammer used to keep time for and signal rowers

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sċiphamor
    genitive singular sċiphamores
    dative singular sċiphamore
    accusative singular sċiphamor
    nominative plural sċiphamoras
    genitive plural sċiphamora

How this ranking works

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

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