Modern English → Old English
Old English word for mead
6 headwords match “mead”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 6 strongest follow; medu ranks first.
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mead — mead
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular medu genitive singular meda dative singular meda accusative singular medu nominative plural meda genitive plural meda -
mead — mead hall
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular meduheall genitive singular meduhealle dative singular meduhealle accusative singular meduhealle nominative plural meduhealla, meduhealle genitive plural meduhealla -
mead — meadow
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular mǣd genitive singular mǣdwe, mǣde dative singular mǣdwe, mǣde accusative singular mǣdwe, mǣde nominative plural mǣdwa, mǣdwe, mǣda, mǣde genitive plural mǣdwa, mǣda -
mead — a banqueting house, a hall in which mead is drunk
- appears in the definition
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mead — mead-drink
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular medudrynċ genitive singular medudrynċes dative singular medudrynċe accusative singular medudrynċ nominative plural medudrynċas genitive plural medudrynċa -
mead — Heorot, the mead hall of Hrothgar in Beowulf
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative singular Heorot genitive singular Heorotes dative singular Heorote accusative singular Heorot
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “mead” 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 “mead”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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