Modern English → Old English
Old English word for man
5 headwords match “man”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; mann ranks first.
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man — person
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular mann genitive singular mannes dative singular menn accusative singular mann nominative plural menn genitive plural manna -
man — to man, garrison
- 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 manniġe first-person singular past indicative mannode second-person singular present indicative mannast second-person singular past indicative mannodest third-person singular present indicative mannaþ third-person singular past indicative mannode -
man — man
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wer genitive singular weres dative singular were accusative singular wer nominative plural weras genitive plural wera -
man — man, hero
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular guma genitive singular guman dative singular guman accusative singular guman nominative plural guman genitive plural gumena -
man — man, chief, leader
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular lēod genitive singular lēodes dative singular lēode accusative singular lēod nominative plural lēodas genitive plural lēoda
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “man” 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 “man”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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