Modern English → Old English
Old English word for murder
5 headwords match “murder”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; morþor ranks first.
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murder — murder
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular morþor genitive singular morþres dative singular morþre accusative singular morþor nominative plural morþru genitive plural morþra -
murder — homicide, murder
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular myrþra genitive singular myrþran dative singular myrþran accusative singular myrþran nominative plural myrþran genitive plural myrþrena -
murder — murder
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular morþ genitive singular morþes dative singular morþe accusative singular morþ nominative plural morþ genitive plural morþa -
murder — murder
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular morðweorc genitive singular morðweorces dative singular morðweorce accusative singular morðweorc nominative plural morðweorc genitive plural morðweorca -
murder — murder
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular morþbealu genitive singular morþbealwes dative singular morþbealwe accusative singular morþbealu nominative plural morþbealu genitive plural morþbealwa
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “murder” 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 “murder”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
Candidates derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each entry links to its source page. · CC BY-SA 4.0 and attribution · CC BY-SA 4.0