Modern English → Old English
Old English word for sparrow
4 headwords match “sparrow”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; spearwa ranks first.
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sparrow — sparrow
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular spearwa genitive singular spearwan dative singular spearwan accusative singular spearwan nominative plural spearwan genitive plural spearwena -
sparrow — hedge sparrow
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hæġsugga genitive singular hæġsuggan dative singular hæġsuggan accusative singular hæġsuggan nominative plural hæġsuggan genitive plural hæġsuggena -
sparrow — a type of warbler; hedge sparrow
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular dunnoc genitive singular dunnoces dative singular dunnoce accusative singular dunnoc nominative plural dunnocas genitive plural dunnoca -
sparrow — a kind of bird, potentially the whitethroat; some sources connect this with the hedge spar
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “sparrow” 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 “sparrow”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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