See -h on Wiktionary
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"text": "itta (“to see something”) → quittah (“They see it”)"
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"text": "tolīnia (“to bother someone, to make suffer”) → ammotolīniah (“You (plrl.) suffer, You are bothered”)"
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"text": "titītza (“to stretch something”) → motitītzah (“They stretch (themselves)”)"
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"text": "itta (“to see something”) → tiquittah (“We see it”)"
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{
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"Classical Nahuatl lemmas",
"Classical Nahuatl suffixes",
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"Pages with entries"
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}
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"Classical Nahuatl lemmas",
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{
"text": "itta (“to see something”) → quittah (“They see it”)"
},
{
"text": "tolīnia (“to bother someone, to make suffer”) → ammotolīniah (“You (plrl.) suffer, You are bothered”)"
},
{
"text": "titītza (“to stretch something”) → motitītzah (“They stretch (themselves)”)"
},
{
"text": "itta (“to see something”) → tiquittah (“We see it”)"
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{
"text": "pāca (“to wash something”) → tlapācah (“They wash something, they wash things”)"
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"Pages with entries"
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}
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"Karelian suffixes",
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"Pages with entries"
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[
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[
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"Karelian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic",
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"Pages with entries"
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"morpheme",
"uncommon"
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"name": "head"
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}
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"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"type": "example"
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[
"-u",
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"alternative",
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}
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{
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}
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}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: + én or geytimé",
"path": [
"-h"
],
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"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-h",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: + én or geytimé",
"path": [
"-h"
],
"section": "Afar",
"subsection": "suffix",
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"trace": ""
}
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