Modern English → Old English
Old English word for sower
5 headwords match “sower”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; sawere ranks first.
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sower — a sower
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sāwere genitive singular sāweres dative singular sāwere accusative singular sāwere nominative plural sāweras genitive plural sāwera -
sower — a sower
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sāwend genitive singular sāwendes dative singular sāwende accusative singular sāwend nominative plural sāwend, sāwende, sāwendas genitive plural sāwendra -
sower — a sower of light; one who casts light
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular lēohtsāwend genitive singular lēohtsāwendes dative singular lēohtsāwende accusative singular lēohtsāwend nominative plural lēohtsāwend, lēohtsāwende, lēohtsāwendas genitive plural lēohtsāwendra -
sower — a sower of strife
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wrōhtsāwere genitive singular wrōhtsāweres dative singular wrōhtsāwere accusative singular wrōhtsāwere nominative plural wrōhtsāweras genitive plural wrōhtsāwera -
sower — A basket or wooden vessel used to hold seed while a sower sows seed; seed basket.
- 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 “sower” 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 “sower”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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