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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for outside

10 headwords match “outside”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 10 strongest follow; utanweard ranks first.

  1. 1

    utanweard

    score 15

    adjective · 10 inflected forms

    outside — outside, exterior

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine ūtanweard
    strong nominative singular feminine ūtanweard
    strong nominative singular neuter ūtanweard
    strong accusative singular masculine ūtanweardne
    strong accusative singular feminine ūtanwearde
    strong accusative singular neuter ūtanweard
  2. 2

    ute

    score 12

    adverb

    outside — outside, outdoors

    • opens the headword's definition
  3. 3

    wiþutan

    score 12

    adverb

    outside — outside of, without

    • opens the headword's definition
  4. 4

    utan

    score 8

    adverb

    outside — from without, outside

    • appears in the definition
  5. 5

    utan-

    score 6

    prefix

    outside — on the outside of

    • appears in the definition
  6. 6

    utweard

    score 6

    adjective

    outside — outward, to the outside

    • appears in the definition
  7. 7

    utweardes

    score 6

    adverb

    outside — outwards, to the outside

    • appears in the definition
  8. 8

    ut

    score 5

    adverb

    outside — out

  9. 9

    þærut

    score 5

    adverb

    outside — thereout

  10. 10

    onbutan

    score 4

    adverb

    outside — on, about, round about, on the outside

    • appears in the definition

How this ranking works

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

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