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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for mulberry

3 headwords match “mulberry”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 3 strongest follow; morberge ranks first.

  1. 1

    morberge

    score 24

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

    mulberry — mulberry

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

    morbeam

    score 13

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    mulberry — mulberry tree, blackberry bush

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular mōrbēam
    genitive singular mōrbēames
    dative singular mōrbēame
    accusative singular mōrbēam
    nominative plural mōrbēamas
    genitive plural mōrbēama
  3. 3

    begbeam

    score 11

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    mulberry — a mulberry bush

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular beġbēam
    genitive singular beġbēames
    dative singular beġbēame
    accusative singular beġbēam
    nominative plural beġbēamas
    genitive plural beġbēama

How this ranking works

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

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