Modern English → Old English
Old English word for island
5 headwords match “island”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; iegland ranks first.
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island — island
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular īeġland genitive singular īeġlandes dative singular īeġlande accusative singular īeġland nominative plural īeġland genitive plural īeġlanda -
island — island
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular īeġ genitive singular īeġe dative singular īeġe accusative singular īeġe nominative plural īeġa, īeġe genitive plural īeġa -
island — island
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ēaland genitive singular ēalandes dative singular ēalande accusative singular ēaland nominative plural ēaland genitive plural ēalanda -
island — a small island; islet
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular iġeoþ genitive singular iġeoþes dative singular iġeoþe accusative singular iġeoþ nominative plural iġeoþas genitive plural iġeoþa -
island — Britain (a large island of Northern Europe)
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative singular Breten genitive singular Bretene dative singular Bretene accusative singular Bretene
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “island” 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 “island”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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