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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for mallow

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

  1. 1

    mealwe

    score 24

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

    mallow — mallow

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular mealwe
    genitive singular mealwan
    dative singular mealwan
    accusative singular mealwan
    nominative plural mealwan
    genitive plural mealwena
  2. 2

    hocleaf

    score 15

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

    mallow — mallow

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hoclēaf
    genitive singular hoclēafes
    dative singular hoclēafe
    accusative singular hoclēaf
    nominative plural hoclēaf
    genitive plural hoclēafa
  3. 3

    cottuc

    score 12

    noun, masculine

    mallow — mallow

    • opens the headword's definition
  4. 4

    geormanleaf

    score 7

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

    mallow — The common mallow (Malva sylvestris)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ġeormanlēaf
    genitive singular ġeormanlēafes
    dative singular ġeormanlēafe
    accusative singular ġeormanlēaf
    nominative plural ġeormanlēaf
    genitive plural ġeormanlēafa

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “mallow” 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 “mallow”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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