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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for land

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

  1. 1

    land

    score 22

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    land — land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular land
    genitive singular landes
    dative singular lande
    accusative singular land
    nominative plural land
    genitive plural landa
  2. 2

    læþ

    score 15

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    land — land

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular lǣþ
    genitive singular lǣþes
    dative singular lǣþe
    accusative singular lǣþ
    nominative plural lǣþ
    genitive plural lǣþa
  3. 3

    folde

    score 15

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

    land — land, earth, ground

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular folde
    genitive singular foldan
    dative singular foldan
    accusative singular foldan
    nominative plural foldan
    genitive plural foldena
  4. 4

    lendan

    score 15

    verb · weak class 1 · 15 inflected forms

    land — to arrive, come to land

    • appears in the definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative lende
    first-person singular past indicative lende
    second-person singular present indicative lendest, lenst, lentst
    second-person singular past indicative lendest
    third-person singular present indicative lendeþ, lent
    third-person singular past indicative lende
  5. 5

    landstede

    score 15

    noun, masculine · strong i-stem · 5 inflected forms

    land — land, country

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular landstede
    genitive singular landstedes
    dative singular landstede
    accusative singular landstede
    nominative plural landstedas
    genitive plural landsteda

How this ranking works

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