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Given an Old English headword, return every line of Bēowulf that carries it: the line numbers, the line text, the spellings used, and a link to the poem line on eldertongue.com.
Old English headword to locate in Bēowulf (e.g. cyning, hilde).
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Given an Old English headword, return every line of Bēowulf that carries it: the line numbers, the line text, the spellings used, and a link to the poem line on eldertongue.com.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| word* | string | Old English headword to locate in Bēowulf (e.g. cyning, hilde). |
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"word"
],
"properties": {
"word": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"cyning"
],
"description": "Old English headword to locate in Bēowulf (e.g. cyning, hilde)."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}Given a modern English word (e.g. king, ship, write), list Old English headwords whose definitions mention it, with a score, part of speech, gloss, and the eldertongue.com page URL for each.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| word* | string | Modern English word to translate back into Old English. |
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"word"
],
"properties": {
"word": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"cyning"
],
"description": "Modern English word to translate back into Old English."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}Given any inflected form (e.g. cyninges, band, gōdra), return the headwords it could belong to and the grammatical reading (case, number, gender, person, tense, mood…) of each.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| form* | string | Inflected Old English form to analyse. |
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"form"
],
"properties": {
"form": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"cyninges"
],
"description": "Inflected Old English form to analyse."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}Return the full declension (nouns/adjectives) or conjugation (verbs) table for an Old English headword. Every word form carries an anchor URL into the eldertongue.com entry page.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| word* | string | Old English headword whose paradigm to show (e.g. cyning, gōd, bindan). |
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"word"
],
"properties": {
"word": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"cyning"
],
"description": "Old English headword whose paradigm to show (e.g. cyning, gōd, bindan)."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}Look up an Old English headword (macrons optional) in the eldertongue dictionary. Returns senses, IPA, syllables, part of speech, gender, noun declension / verb class, etymology, and the eldertongue.com page URL.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| word* | string | Old English headword, macrons optional (e.g. cyning, cyninges, scieppan). |
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"word"
],
"properties": {
"word": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"cyning"
],
"description": "Old English headword, macrons optional (e.g. cyning, cyninges, scieppan)."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
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