eldertongue

Modern English → Old English

Old English word for talent

2 headwords match “talent”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; talente ranks first.

  1. 1

    talente

    score 24

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    talent — talent (money, weight)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular talente
    genitive singular talentan
    dative singular talentan
    accusative singular talentan
    nominative plural talentan
    genitive plural talentena
  2. 2

    æþelu

    score 8

    noun, feminine / neuter · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    talent — nobility, aristocracy

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular æþelu
    genitive singular æþele, æþelu
    dative singular æþele, æþelu
    accusative singular æþele, æþelu
    nominative plural æþela, æþele, æþelu
    genitive plural æþela

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “talent” 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 “talent”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

Candidates derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each entry links to its source page. · CC BY-SA 4.0 and attribution · CC BY-SA 4.0