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Old English word for march

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

  1. 1

    merece

    score 24

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

    march — march, smallage (plant)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular mereċe
    genitive singular mereċes
    dative singular mereċe
    accusative singular mereċe
    nominative plural mereċas
    genitive plural mereċa
  2. 2

    infaru

    score 7

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    march — an invasion, incursion, inroad, march into a country

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular infaru
    genitive singular infare
    dative singular infare
    accusative singular infare
    nominative plural infara, infare
    genitive plural infara
  3. 3

    Martius

    score 7

    proper noun, masculine

    march — March

    • opens the headword's definition
    • proper noun
  4. 4

    faru

    score 6

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    march — a journey or going

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular faru
    genitive singular fare
    dative singular fare
    accusative singular fare
    nominative plural fara, fare
    genitive plural fara
  5. 5

    afaran

    score 6

    verb · strong class VI · 16 inflected forms

    march — to depart, march, go out of or from a place; fare from

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative āfare
    first-person singular past indicative āfōr
    second-person singular present indicative āfærest, āfærst
    second-person singular past indicative āfōre
    third-person singular present indicative āfæreþ, āfærþ
    third-person singular past indicative āfōr

How this ranking works

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