eldertongue

Modern English → Old English

Old English word for heavily

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

  1. 1

    hefiglice

    score 19

    adverb

    heavily — heavily, grievously, sluggishly, dully, with grief, displeasure, or anger

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
  2. 2

    pislice

    score 12

    adverb

    heavily — heavily

    • opens the headword's definition
  3. 3

    seomian

    score 4

    verb · weak class 2 · 15 inflected forms

    heavily — to lie heavily, lurk, stand close

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative seomiġe
    first-person singular past indicative seomode
    second-person singular present indicative seomast
    second-person singular past indicative seomodest
    third-person singular present indicative seomaþ
    third-person singular past indicative seomode
  4. 4

    sworettan

    score 4

    verb · weak class 1 · 16 inflected forms

    heavily — to pant, sigh, breathe heavily

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative sworette
    first-person singular past indicative sworette
    second-person singular present indicative sworetst
    second-person singular past indicative sworettest
    third-person singular present indicative sworett, sworet
    third-person singular past indicative sworette

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “heavily” 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.

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