Modern English → Old English
Old English word for thunder
2 headwords match “thunder”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; þunrian ranks first.
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thunder — to thunder
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative þunriġe first-person singular past indicative þunrode second-person singular present indicative þunrast second-person singular past indicative þunrodest third-person singular present indicative þunraþ third-person singular past indicative þunrode -
thunder — the Anglo-Saxon god of thunder, equivalent to Old Norse Þórr and Old High German Donar
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative singular Þunor genitive singular Þunres dative singular Þunre accusative singular Þunor
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “thunder” 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 “thunder”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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