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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for shop

3 headwords match “shop”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; scoppa ranks first.

  1. 1

    scoppa

    score 18

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    shop — a shop; a booth or shed used for work or trade

    • appears in the definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sċoppa
    genitive singular sċoppan
    dative singular sċoppan
    accusative singular sċoppan
    nominative plural sċoppan
    genitive plural sċoppena
  2. 2

    flæschus

    score 9

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    shop — a fleshhouse (glosses Latin carnālis (“carnāle”)); meat shop

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular flǣsċhūs
    genitive singular flǣsċhūses
    dative singular flǣsċhūse
    accusative singular flǣsċhūs
    nominative plural flǣsċhūs
    genitive plural flǣsċhūsa
  3. 3

    þyrelhus

    score 8

    noun, neuter

    shop — a turner's shop

    • 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 “shop” 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.

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