Modern English → Old English
Old English word for tick
4 headwords match “tick”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 4 strongest follow; ticia ranks first.
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tick — tick (parasitic blood-sucking arachnid)
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ticia genitive singular tician dative singular tician accusative singular tician nominative plural tician genitive plural ticiena -
tick — a young goat; kid
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular tiċċen genitive singular tiċċenes dative singular tiċċene accusative singular tiċċen nominative plural tiċċenu genitive plural tiċċena -
tick — to touch lightly, pat, tap
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ticciġe first-person singular past indicative ticcode second-person singular present indicative ticcast second-person singular past indicative ticcodest third-person singular present indicative ticcaþ third-person singular past indicative ticcode -
tick — to make angry, tick off, enrage, irritate, annoy, vex, grill, incense, cause anyone to swe
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ābelge first-person singular past indicative ābealg, ābealh second-person singular present indicative ābilġst second-person singular past indicative ābulge third-person singular present indicative ābilġþ third-person singular past indicative ābealg, ābealh
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “tick” 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 “tick”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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