Modern English → Old English
Old English word for not
4 headwords match “not”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 4 strongest follow; nawiht ranks first.
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not — not (used to negate adjectives, especially in phrases like "not long ago" and "not far fro
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular nāwiht genitive singular nāwihtes dative singular nāwihte accusative singular nāwiht -
not — not
- opens the headword's definition
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not — not
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
- alternative form
Paradigm summary nominative singular neë, nē genitive singular neës, nēs, nēës dative singular neë, nē, nēë accusative singular neë, nē nominative plural neäs, nēas, nēäs genitive plural neä, nēna, nēä -
not — not
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular næs genitive singular næsses dative singular næsse accusative singular næs nominative plural næssas genitive plural næssa
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “not” 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 “not”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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