Modern English → Old English
Old English word for wall
5 headwords match “wall”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; weall ranks first.
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wall — wall
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular weall genitive singular wealles dative singular wealle accusative singular weall nominative plural weallas genitive plural wealla -
wall — wall (of a building or a house)
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wāg genitive singular wāges dative singular wāge accusative singular wāg nominative plural wāgas genitive plural wāga -
wall — a wall
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular mūra genitive singular mūran dative singular mūran accusative singular mūran nominative plural mūran genitive plural mūrena -
wall — fortified place: stronghold, fortress, castle; a place of strength; wall, bulwark
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fæsten genitive singular fæstenes dative singular fæstene accusative singular fæsten nominative plural fæstenu genitive plural fæstena -
wall — a city-dwelling (i.e. a house surrounded by a wall or rampart of earth)
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular burgræċed genitive singular burgræċedes dative singular burgræċede accusative singular burgræċed nominative plural burgræċedas, burgræċed genitive plural burgræċeda
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “wall” 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 “wall”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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