Modern English → Old English
Old English word for height
5 headwords match “height”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; hiehþu ranks first.
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height — highness, height
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hīehþu genitive singular hīehþu, hīehþe dative singular hīehþu, hīehþe accusative singular hīehþu, hīehþe nominative plural hīehþa, hīehþe genitive plural hīehþa -
height — height, tallness, highness
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hēahnes genitive singular hēahnesse dative singular hēahnesse accusative singular hēahnesse nominative plural hēahnessa, hēahnesse genitive plural hēahnessa -
height — hurst, hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hyrst genitive singular hyrste, hyrstes dative singular hyrste accusative singular hyrst, hyrste nominative plural hyrste, hyrsta, hyrstas genitive plural hyrsta -
height — length; distance, duration
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular lenġu genitive singular lenġu, lenġe dative singular lenġu, lenġe accusative singular lenġu, lenġe nominative plural lenġu, lenġe genitive plural lenġa -
height — fruit
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wæstm genitive singular wæstmes dative singular wæstme accusative singular wæstm nominative plural wæstmas genitive plural wæstma
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “height” 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 “height”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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