eldertongue

Modern English → Old English

Old English word for that

5 headwords match “that”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; þæt ranks first.

  1. 1

    þæt

    score 21

    article

    that — that

    • opens the headword's definition
  2. 2

    se

    score 15

    pronoun · 20 inflected forms

    that — that

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sē
    genitive singular sēan
    dative singular sēan
    accusative singular sēan, sīan
    nominative plural sēan
    genitive plural sēana, sēna
  3. 3

    geon

    score 15

    determiner · 12 inflected forms

    that — that; yon

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine ġeon
    strong nominative singular feminine ġeonu, ġeono
    strong nominative singular neuter ġeon
    strong accusative singular masculine ġeonne
    strong accusative singular feminine ġeone
    strong accusative singular neuter ġeon
  4. 4

    þe

    score 12

    article, masculine

    that — that, who, which

    • opens the headword's definition
  5. 5

    þætte

    score 12

    conjunction

    that — that

    • opens the headword's definition

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “that” 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 “that”, 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