Modern English → Old English
Old English word for hand
5 headwords match “hand”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; hand ranks first.
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hand — hand
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hand genitive singular handa dative singular handa accusative singular hand nominative plural handa genitive plural handa -
hand — to take by hand; grasp
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative hende first-person singular past indicative hende second-person singular present indicative hendest, henst, hentst second-person singular past indicative hendest third-person singular present indicative hendeþ, hent third-person singular past indicative hende -
hand — hand, palm as a measure of length
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular mund genitive singular munde dative singular munde accusative singular munde nominative plural munda, munde genitive plural munda -
hand — (poetic) hand, palm
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular folm genitive singular folme dative singular folme accusative singular folme nominative plural folma, folme genitive plural folma -
hand — hand in hand
- opens the headword's definition
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “hand” 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 “hand”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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