eldertongue

Modern English → Old English

Old English word for like

10 headwords match “like”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 10 strongest follow; lician ranks first.

  1. 1

    lician

    score 15

    verb

    like — to like (impersonal, with dative subject)

  2. 2

    gelic

    score 13

    adjective

    like — like, similar; the same (meaning 'alike', not 'identical'), equal

  3. 3

    lic

    score 12

    noun

    like — dead body, corpse

  4. 4

    swelce

    score 12

    conjunction

    like — like

  5. 5

    gemæc

    score 11

    adjective

    like — equal, like

  6. 6

    glæren

    score 11

    adjective

    like — like glass, glassy, transparent, vitreous

  7. 7

    wylfen

    score 11

    adjective

    like — like a wolf; wolfish; wolven

  8. 8

    wilddeorlic

    score 11

    adjective

    like — like a wild animal; brutish, brutal, bestial, animalistic

  9. 9

    swa

    score 10

    conjunction

    like — like, as, the way (often doubled as "swā swā")

  10. 10

    þyslic

    score 10

    pronoun

    like — like this, this kind of

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