Modern English → Old English
Old English word for nothing
8 headwords match “nothing”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 8 strongest follow; nawiht ranks first.
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nothing — nothing
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular nāwiht genitive singular nāwihtes dative singular nāwihte accusative singular nāwiht -
nothing — nothing
- opens the headword's definition
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nothing — for nothing, in vain
- appears in the definition
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nothing — without payment
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nothing — not at all, by no means
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nothing — to be empty, unoccupied
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative īdliġe first-person singular past indicative īdlode second-person singular present indicative īdlast second-person singular past indicative īdlodest third-person singular present indicative īdlaþ third-person singular past indicative īdlode -
nothing — to lose, be bereft of
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative lēose first-person singular past indicative lēas second-person singular present indicative līest second-person singular past indicative lure third-person singular present indicative līest third-person singular past indicative lēas -
nothing — to be lost; stray
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative losiġe first-person singular past indicative losode second-person singular present indicative losast second-person singular past indicative losodest third-person singular present indicative losaþ third-person singular past indicative losode
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “nothing” 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 “nothing”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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