Modern English → Old English
Old English word for seal
5 headwords match “seal”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; seolh ranks first.
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seal — seal (animal)
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular seolh genitive singular sēoles dative singular sēole accusative singular seolh nominative plural sēolas genitive plural sēola -
seal — waves where the seal swims
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative plural seolhȳþe, seolhȳþa genitive plural seolhȳþa dative plural seolhȳþum accusative plural seolhȳþe, seolhȳþa -
seal — token, sign
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular mircels genitive singular mircelses, mircelse dative singular mircelse accusative singular mircels, mircelse nominative plural mircelsas, mircelsa, mircelse genitive plural mircelsa -
seal — target
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular mierċels genitive singular mierċelses dative singular mierċelse accusative singular mierċels nominative plural mierċelsas genitive plural mierċelsa -
seal — to bind (with rope), restrain
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative sǣle first-person singular past indicative sǣlde second-person singular present indicative sǣlest, sǣlst second-person singular past indicative sǣldest third-person singular present indicative sǣleþ, sǣlþ third-person singular past indicative sǣlde
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “seal” 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 “seal”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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