Modern English → Old English
Old English word for minister
5 headwords match “minister”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 5 strongest follow; ciricþegn ranks first.
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minister — minister of a church
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ċiriċþeġn genitive singular ċiriċþeġnes dative singular ċiriċþeġne accusative singular ċiriċþeġn nominative plural ċiriċþeġnas genitive plural ċiriċþeġna -
minister — to serve, minister
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ambehte first-person singular past indicative ambehte second-person singular present indicative ambehtest, ambehst, ambehtst second-person singular past indicative ambehtest third-person singular present indicative ambehteþ, ambeht third-person singular past indicative ambehte -
minister — to minister, serve
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ġeambehtu, ġeambehte first-person singular past indicative ġeambehte second-person singular present indicative ġeambehtes second-person singular past indicative ġeambehtes third-person singular present indicative ġeambehteþ third-person singular past indicative ġeambehte -
minister — a town
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular mynsterstōw genitive singular mynsterstōwe dative singular mynsterstōwe accusative singular mynsterstōwe nominative plural mynsterstōwa, mynsterstōwe genitive plural mynsterstōwa -
minister — to turn; to change; to spread about
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative behweorfe first-person singular past indicative behwearf second-person singular present indicative behwierfst second-person singular past indicative behwurfe third-person singular present indicative behwierfþ third-person singular past indicative behwearf
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “minister” 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 “minister”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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