Modern English → Old English
Old English word for looking
6 headwords match “looking”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 6 strongest follow; locung ranks first.
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looking — looking
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
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looking — guard, the action of looking out for danger
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular weard genitive singular weardes dative singular wearde accusative singular weard nominative plural weardas genitive plural wearda -
looking — a looking at, a viewing of
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sċēawung genitive singular sċēawunge dative singular sċēawunge accusative singular sċēawunge nominative plural sċēawunga, sċēawunge genitive plural sċēawunga -
looking — meaning unclear; (glosses Latin respectus (“respect, looking back”))
- appears in the definition
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looking — an act of looking through or looking over
- appears in the definition
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looking — to look, see; gaze
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative lōciġe first-person singular past indicative lōcode second-person singular present indicative lōcast second-person singular past indicative lōcodest third-person singular present indicative lōcaþ third-person singular past indicative lōcode
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “looking” 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 “looking”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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