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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for weight

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

  1. 1

    wiht

    score 21

    noun, feminine / neuter · strong i-stem · 6 inflected forms

    weight — weight

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wiht
    genitive singular wihte, wihtes
    dative singular wihte
    accusative singular wiht, wihte
    nominative plural wihte, wihta, wihtu
    genitive plural wihta
  2. 2

    gewiht

    score 15

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    weight — weight

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ġewiht
    genitive singular ġewihtes
    dative singular ġewihte
    accusative singular ġewiht
    nominative plural ġewiht
    genitive plural ġewihta
  3. 3

    wæg

    score 11

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 12 inflected forms

    weight — a weight

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wǣġ
    genitive singular wǣġes
    dative singular wǣġe
    accusative singular wǣġ
    nominative plural wǣgas
    genitive plural wǣga
  4. 4

    efnwiht

    score 11

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    weight — equal weight, equipoise

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular efnwiht
    genitive singular efnwihtes
    dative singular efnwihte
    accusative singular efnwiht
    nominative plural efnwihtu
    genitive plural efnwihta
  5. 5

    talente

    score 9

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    weight — talent (money, weight)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular talente
    genitive singular talentan
    dative singular talentan
    accusative singular talentan
    nominative plural talentan
    genitive plural talentena

How this ranking works

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

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