Modern English → Old English
Old English word for shadow
4 headwords match “shadow”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; sceadu ranks first.
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shadow — shadow
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sċeadu genitive singular sċeadwe, sċeade, sċeaduwe dative singular sċeadwe, sċeade, sċeaduwe accusative singular sċeadwe, sċeade, sċeaduwe nominative plural sċeadwa, sċeadwe, sċeada, sċeade, sċeaduwa, sċeaduwe genitive plural sċeadwa, sċeada, sċeaduwa -
shadow — shadow
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sċūa genitive singular sċūan dative singular sċūan accusative singular sċūan nominative plural sċūan genitive plural sċūena -
shadow — to cast a shadow
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative sċeadiġe first-person singular past indicative sċeadode second-person singular present indicative sċeadast second-person singular past indicative sċeadodest third-person singular present indicative sċeadaþ third-person singular past indicative sċeadode -
shadow — to overshadow, cover with shadow
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative sċeadwiġe first-person singular past indicative sċeadwode second-person singular present indicative sċeadwast second-person singular past indicative sċeadwodest third-person singular present indicative sċeadwaþ third-person singular past indicative sċeadwode
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “shadow” 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 “shadow”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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