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"1": "zh",
"2": "番",
"pos": "name of non-Han peoples",
"tr": "OC *pˤar"
},
"expansion": "Chinese 番 (OC *pˤar, name of non-Han peoples)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Chinese 番 (OC *pˤar, name of non-Han peoples).",
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"1": "sit-nas-pro",
"2": "noun"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "sit-nas-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Naish/Bal",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Naish entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Naish lemmas",
"Proto-Naish nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"the Pumi people"
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "Bal m (plural [please provide])",
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}
],
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{
"word": "Baal"
}
],
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"Pages with entries",
"Requests for inflections in Saterland Frisian entries",
"Saterland Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"Saterland Frisian lemmas",
"Saterland Frisian masculine nouns",
"Saterland Frisian nouns"
],
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"alternative spelling of Baal"
],
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[
"Baal",
"Baal#Saterland_Frisian"
]
],
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"alternative",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "Bal"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj, informal",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
"section": "Central Franconian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj, informal",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
"section": "Central Franconian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj, sports",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
"section": "Central Franconian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj, sports",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
"section": "Central Franconian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj, chiefly in the negative",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
"section": "Central Franconian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj, chiefly in the negative",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Kirchröadsj",
"path": [
"Bal"
],
"section": "Central Franconian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Bal",
"trace": ""
}
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