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"Italian proper nouns with irregular gender",
"Italian surnames",
"Italian surnames from matronymics",
"Italian uncountable proper nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname originating as a matronymic"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"tags": [
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "Donna"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pdt",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "Donna",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"lang_code": "pdt",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "Donner"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Plautdietsch entries with incorrect language header",
"Plautdietsch lemmas",
"Plautdietsch nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"thunder"
],
"links": [
[
"thunder",
"thunder"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Donna"
}
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