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"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "nl",
"3": "letter"
},
"expansion": "Dutch letter",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "dum",
"3": "lettere"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch lettere",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "fro",
"3": "lettre"
},
"expansion": "Old French lettre",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "la",
"3": "littera"
},
"expansion": "Latin littera",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dutch letter, from Middle Dutch lettere, from Old French lettre, from Latin littera.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "letters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lettertjie",
"tags": [
"diminutive"
]
}
],
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{
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"10": "",
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"12": "lettertjie",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
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"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "letters",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
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"f2request": "1",
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"head": ""
},
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},
{
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"1": "s",
"2": "lettertjie"
},
"expansion": "letter (plural letters, diminutive lettertjie)",
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}
],
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"lang_code": "af",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "hoofletter"
},
{
"word": "letterkunde"
}
],
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"letter (letter of the alphabet)"
],
"id": "en-letter-af-noun-wLGcFOsh",
"links": [
[
"letter",
"letter#English"
]
],
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]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛ.tər/"
},
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"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "letter"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "hoofletter"
},
{
"word": "letterkunde"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "nl",
"3": "letter"
},
"expansion": "Dutch letter",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "dum",
"3": "lettere"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch lettere",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "fro",
"3": "lettre"
},
"expansion": "Old French lettre",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "la",
"3": "littera"
},
"expansion": "Latin littera",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dutch letter, from Middle Dutch lettere, from Old French lettre, from Latin littera.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "letters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lettertjie",
"tags": [
"diminutive"
]
}
],
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{
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"10": "",
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"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "letters",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
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"f2request": "1",
"f5accel-form": "diminutive",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "letter (plural letters, diminutive lettertjie)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "lettertjie"
},
"expansion": "letter (plural letters, diminutive lettertjie)",
"name": "af-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"lang_code": "af",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header",
"Afrikaans lemmas",
"Afrikaans nouns",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Latin",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Old French",
"Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Afrikaans terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"letter (letter of the alphabet)"
],
"links": [
[
"letter",
"letter#English"
]
],
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛ.tər/"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Anon1314-letter.wav/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Anon1314-letter.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Anon1314-letter.wav/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Anon1314-letter.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "letter"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Afrikaans dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.