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[
"-én",
"-én#Old_Irish"
],
[
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"-án#Old_Irish"
]
],
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},
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}
],
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "an -eán",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na -eáin",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na -eán",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an -eán",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don -eán",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis na -eáin",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-án",
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]
}
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"g2": ""
},
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},
{
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"word": "-án"
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[
"-án",
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]
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"-én",
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"-án#Old_Irish"
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}
],
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
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]
},
{
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"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na -eáin",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "an -eáin",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na -eán",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an -eán",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don -eán",
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"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis na -eáin",
"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-án",
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},
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"Irish first-declension nouns",
"Irish lemmas",
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"Irish suffixes",
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"Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
"Pages with 1 entry",
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]
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]
}
],
"word": "-eán"
}
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"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
"path": [
"-eán"
],
"section": "Irish",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-eán",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "page/20250114",
"msg": "Negatively nested table braces, couldn't split inflection section, -eán/Irish section declension",
"path": [
"-eán"
],
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"subsection": "suffix",
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}
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