See Greif on Wiktionary
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"Slovene proper nouns",
"Slovene surnames",
"Slovene surnames from German",
"Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from German"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡràːjf/"
}
],
"word": "Greif"
}
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"path": [
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"section": "Slovene",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Greif",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "inflection/1826",
"msg": "inflection table: empty tags for The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker",
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],
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}
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