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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for hilt

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

  1. 1

    hilt

    score 24

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

    hilt — hilt, handle

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hilt
    genitive singular hiltes
    dative singular hilte
    accusative singular hilt
    nominative plural hiltas
    genitive plural hilta
  2. 2

    hilte

    score 13

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    hilt — hilt, handle, feminine equivalent of hilt

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hilte
    genitive singular hiltan
    dative singular hiltan
    accusative singular hiltan
    nominative plural hiltan
    genitive plural hiltena
  3. 3

    lecg

    score 9

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

    hilt — some part of a weapon, possibly the crossbar in the hilt

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular leċġ
    genitive singular leċġe
    dative singular leċġe
    accusative singular leċġe
    nominative plural leċġa, leċġe
    genitive plural leċġa

How this ranking works

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