Modern English → Old English
Old English word for witness
8 headwords match “witness”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 8 strongest follow; gewitnes ranks first.
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witness — witness (all senses)
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ġewitnes genitive singular ġewitnesse dative singular ġewitnesse accusative singular ġewitnesse nominative plural ġewitnessa, ġewitnesse genitive plural ġewitnessa -
witness — witness (someone who testifies or has witnessed something)
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ġewita genitive singular ġewitan dative singular ġewitan accusative singular ġewitan nominative plural ġewitan genitive plural ġewitena -
witness — witness
- opens the headword's definition
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witness — a statement which bears witness to something; testament; covenant
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular witword genitive singular witwordes dative singular witworde accusative singular witword nominative plural witword genitive plural witworda -
witness — release on giving an equivalent; compensation
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular lēasung genitive singular lēasunge dative singular lēasunge accusative singular lēasunge nominative plural lēasunga, lēasunge genitive plural lēasunga -
witness — to prove the truth of; to bear witness
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ġesōþiġe first-person singular past indicative ġesōþode second-person singular present indicative ġesōþast second-person singular past indicative ġesōþodest third-person singular present indicative ġesōþaþ third-person singular past indicative ġesōþode -
witness — to declare true; to state as fact; to assert, affirm
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ġesēþe first-person singular past indicative ġesēþde second-person singular present indicative ġesēþest, ġesēst second-person singular past indicative ġesēþdest third-person singular present indicative ġesēþeþ, ġesēþþ, ġesēþ third-person singular past indicative ġesēþde -
witness — to signify, denote, mean
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ġetācniġe first-person singular past indicative ġetācnode second-person singular present indicative ġetācnast second-person singular past indicative ġetācnodest third-person singular present indicative ġetācnaþ third-person singular past indicative ġetācnode
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “witness” 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 “witness”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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