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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for hill

5 headwords match “hill”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; hyll ranks first.

  1. 1

    hyll

    score 24

    noun, masculine / feminine · strong ō-stem · 6 inflected forms

    hill — hill

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hyll
    genitive singular hylle, hylles
    dative singular hylle
    accusative singular hylle, hyll
    nominative plural hylla, hylle, hyllas
    genitive plural hylla
  2. 2

    dun

    score 15

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    hill — hill, mountain

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular dūn
    genitive singular dūne
    dative singular dūne
    accusative singular dūne
    nominative plural dūna, dūne
    genitive plural dūna
  3. 3

    munt

    score 11

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    hill — a hill, mound

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular munt
    genitive singular muntes
    dative singular munte
    accusative singular munt
    nominative plural muntas
    genitive plural munta
  4. 4

    beorg

    score 11

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    hill — mountain, hill

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular beorg
    genitive singular beorges
    dative singular beorge
    accusative singular beorg
    nominative plural beorgas
    genitive plural beorga
  5. 5

    stanbeorg

    score 11

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    hill — rocky hill

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular stānbeorg
    genitive singular stānbeorges
    dative singular stānbeorge
    accusative singular stānbeorg
    nominative plural stānbeorgas
    genitive plural stānbeorga

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “hill” 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 “hill”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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