Modern English → Old English
Old English word for wax
5 headwords match “wax”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; weax ranks first.
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wax — wax
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular weax genitive singular weaxes dative singular weaxe accusative singular weax -
wax — wax candle
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular weaxcandel genitive singular weaxcandele dative singular weaxcandele accusative singular weaxcandele nominative plural weaxcandela, weaxcandele genitive plural weaxcandela -
wax — to grow
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative weaxe first-person singular past indicative wēox second-person singular present indicative wiext second-person singular past indicative wēoxe third-person singular present indicative wiext third-person singular past indicative wēox -
wax — to grow, to wax, arise, to come forth
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative āweaxe first-person singular past indicative āwēox second-person singular present indicative āwiext second-person singular past indicative āwēoxe third-person singular present indicative āweaxeþ third-person singular past indicative āwēox -
wax — to grow, wax, increase, grow up, be made or produced
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ġeweaxe first-person singular past indicative ġewōx, ġeweōx second-person singular present indicative ġeweaxt second-person singular past indicative ġewōxe, ġeweōxe third-person singular present indicative ġeweaxt third-person singular past indicative ġewōx, ġeweōx
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “wax” 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 “wax”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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