See Merle on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Merle f (genitive Merle, plural Merlen)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German dialectal terms",
"German terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
99,
104
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
83,
94
]
],
"english": "A slim and slender alder,\n There we often sat in waking dream\n And listened to the blackbird’s cry;\n She had built her scrubby nest\n Right in the swaying top[.]",
"ref": "1844, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, “Die Nadel im Baume”, in Gedichte, Stuttgart, page 221:",
"text": "Eine schlanke schmächtige Erle,\n Da saßen wir oft in wachendem Traum\n Und horchten dem Schlage der Merle;\n Die hatte ihr struppiges Nest gebaut\n Grad in der schwankenden Krone[.]",
"translation": "A slim and slender alder,\n There we often sat in waking dream\n And listened to the blackbird’s cry;\n She had built her scrubby nest\n Right in the swaying top[.]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"blackbird"
],
"links": [
[
"blackbird",
"blackbird"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now chiefly dialectal) blackbird"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Amsel"
},
{
"word": "Schwarzdrossel"
}
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɛrlə/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛʁ.lə]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛɐ̯.lə]"
}
],
"word": "Merle"
}
{
"categories": [
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German feminine nouns",
"German lemmas",
"German proper nouns",
"German spelling pronunciations",
"German terms borrowed from English",
"German terms derived from English",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "en",
"3": "Merle"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English Merle",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "spelling pronunciation",
"name": "spelling pronunciation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from English Merle with a spelling pronunciation (likely reinforced by etymology 1 above).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Merles",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Merle",
"raw_tags": [
"with an article"
],
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f.gen:s:-with an article"
},
"expansion": "Merle f (proper noun, genitive Merles or (with an article) Merle)",
"name": "de-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German female given names",
"German given names"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name of modern usage"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"proper-noun"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɛrlə/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛʁ.lə]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛɐ̯.lə]"
}
],
"word": "Merle"
}
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