Etymograph > Indo-European > Old English

Phonetics

Consonants

	bilabial	labiodental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	velar	labiovelar
stop	p, b			t, d		c /k/, cg
fricative		f, v	þ	s	sċ	g, h
affricate					ġ, ċ
nasal	m			n
approximant							w
trill					r
lateral				l

Historical Consonants

	bilabial
fricative	β

Other Historical Consonants

j – close front vocalic consonant

Vowels

	front	back
close	i, ī, y, ȳ	u, ū
mid	e, ē	o, ō
open	æ, ǣ	a, ā

Historical Vowels

	front	back
close	į̄	ų
open		ą̄, ą

Diphthongs: ea, ēa, eo, ēo, ie, īe, au, ai, io, īo

Stress rule: oe-stress

Pronunciation rule: oe-pronunciation

Orthography rule: oe-ortho

Grammar

Parts of speech

Noun (N), Proper noun (NP), Adjective (ADJ), Adverb (ADV), Verb (V), Pronoun (PRON), Preverb (PV), Affix (AFF), Preposition (PREP), Conjunction (CONJ), Numeral (NUM)

Grammatical categories

Case (N, ADJ, PRON): Nominative (NOM), Accusative (ACC), Genitive (GEN), Dative (DAT), Instrumental (INST)
Number (N, ADJ, PRON, V): Singular (SG), Plural (PL)
Gender (ADJ, PRON): Masculine (M), Feminine (F), Neuter (N)
Tense (V): Present (PRES), Past (PST)
Person (V): First person (1), Second person (2), Third person (3)
Mood (V): Indicative (IND), Subjunctive (SUBJ)
Non-finite verb form (V): Inflected infinitive (INF), Participle (PART)
Comparison degree (ADJ): Positive (POS), Comparative (COMP), Superlative (SUP)
Strength (ADJ): Strong (STRONG), Weak (WEAK)

Word classes

Gender (N): masculine (masc), feminine (fem), neuter (neut)
Stem class (N): a-stem, o-stem, n-stem, i-stem, s-stem
Verb type (V): strong (v-strong), weak (v-weak), preterite-present (v-pret-pres)
Weak preterite suffix (V): -d- (pret-d), -ed- (pret-ed), -t- (pret-t), -od- (pret-od)
Strong verb class (V): first (v-strong-1), second (v-strong-2), third (v-strong-3), fourth (v-strong-4), fifth (v-strong-5), sixth (v-strong-6), seventh (v-strong-7)
Weak verb class (V): weak-first (v-weak-1), weak-second (v-weak-2), weak-third (v-weak-3)

Dictionary Settings

wiktionary-id: ang wiktionary-orthography: ā=a,ō=o,ī=i,ū=u,ē=e,ȳ=y,ǣ=æ,ġ=g,ċ=c ang-decl-noun-a-m: masc, a-stem ang-decl-noun-a-n: neut, a-stem ang-decl-noun-ja-m: masc, a-stem ang-decl-noun-ja-n: neut, a-stem ang-decl-noun-o-f: fem, o-stem ang-decl-noun-i-f: fem, i-stem ang-decl-noun-n-m: masc, n-stem ang-decl-noun-n-f: fem, n-stem <s1>: v-strong-1 <s2>: v-strong-2 <s3>: v-strong-3 <s4>: v-strong-4 <s5>: v-strong-5 <s6>: v-strong-6 <s7>: v-strong-7 <w1>: v-weak-1 <w2>: v-weak-2 <w3>: v-weak-3