Modern English → Old English
Old English word for helm
3 headwords match “helm”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; helma ranks first.
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helm — helm (of boat), tiller
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular helma genitive singular helman dative singular helman accusative singular helman nominative plural helman genitive plural helmena -
helm — helmet
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular helm genitive singular helmes dative singular helme accusative singular helm nominative plural helmas genitive plural helma -
helm — the stalk of a plant or grass
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular healm genitive singular healmes dative singular healme accusative singular healm nominative plural healm genitive plural healma
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “helm” 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 “helm”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
Candidates derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each entry links to its source page. · CC BY-SA 4.0 and attribution · CC BY-SA 4.0