See ma in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
"expansion": "Proto-Afroasiatic *ma, *mi-",
"name": "inh"
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},
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"ma"
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}
],
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"what? what kind of?"
],
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"translation": "what?",
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}
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},
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"ipa": "[ˈmʌ]"
}
],
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},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmʌ]"
}
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}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: bound form maa-",
"path": [
"ma"
],
"section": "Afar",
"subsection": "determiner",
"title": "ma",
"trace": ""
}
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