Modern English → Old English
Old English word for heat
5 headwords match “heat”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; hætu ranks first.
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heat — heat
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hǣtu genitive singular hǣtu, hǣte dative singular hǣtu, hǣte accusative singular hǣtu, hǣte -
heat — to heat
- 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 hǣte first-person singular past indicative hǣtte second-person singular present indicative hǣtest, hǣtst second-person singular past indicative hǣttest third-person singular present indicative hǣteþ, hǣtt, hǣt third-person singular past indicative hǣtte -
heat — heat
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular swōl genitive singular swōles dative singular swōle accusative singular swōl nominative plural swōl genitive plural swōla -
heat — heat, burning
- opens the headword's definition
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heat — summer heat
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sumerhǣte genitive singular sumerhǣtan dative singular sumerhǣtan accusative singular sumerhǣtan nominative plural sumerhǣtan genitive plural sumerhǣtena
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “heat” 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 “heat”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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