eldertongue

Modern English → Old English

Old English word for shake

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

  1. 1

    scacan

    score 12

    verb

    shake — to pass or depart

  2. 2

    bifian

    score 8

    verb

    shake — to tremble, shake

  3. 3

    abifian

    score 8

    verb

    shake — to tremble, shake

  4. 4

    hrissan

    score 8

    verb

    shake — to shake

  5. 5

    acweccan

    score 8

    verb

    shake — to shake, brandish

  6. 6

    ahrisian

    score 8

    verb

    shake — to shake

  7. 7

    tohreran

    score 8

    verb

    shake — to shake apart

  8. 8

    scudan

    score 6

    verb

    shake — to shake, tremble, shiver, shudder

  9. 9

    wagian

    score 6

    verb

    shake — to move back and forth, wag, wave, shake

  10. 10

    ascacan

    score 6

    verb

    shake — to shake off, remove

Scores and definitions come from the Wiktionary data build. Attribution · Wiktionary