See Wille on Wiktionary
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"Hunsrik terms derived from Old High German",
"Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Hunsrik terms inherited from Middle High German",
"Hunsrik terms inherited from Old High German",
"Hunsrik terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Hunsrik terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Hunsrik/ilə",
"Rhymes:Hunsrik/ilə/2 syllables"
],
"glosses": [
"will; desire"
],
"links": [
[
"will",
"will"
],
[
"desire",
"desire"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈvilə/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ilə"
}
],
"word": "Wille"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "Wille",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Saterland Frisian",
"lang_code": "stq",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for translations of Saterland Frisian quotations",
"Saterland Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"Saterland Frisian lemmas",
"Saterland Frisian nouns",
"Saterland Frisian terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
83,
88
]
],
"ref": "1800, J. G. Hoche, Reise durch Osnabrück und Niedermünster in das Saterland, Ostfriesland und Gröningen, Bremen, page 246:",
"text": "Uſe Babe! da du beſt en Hämel, geheliget werde din No͞ama, to kume us din Rik, din Wille geſchio, wie en Hämel alſo ok op er Ide, uſe teilike Brod rek us hüt, un vergef us uſe Schelde, as ſo wy vergeben uſe Schelder, un füihr us nicht in Verſikung und erlös us von allem Èuèl.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"will"
],
"links": [
[
"will",
"will"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Wille"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "Willes",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Ville",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "proper noun",
"3": "genitive",
"4": "Willes",
"g": "c",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "Wille c (genitive Willes)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "Wille c (genitive Willes)",
"name": "sv-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish diminutives of male given names",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish given names",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish male given names",
"Swedish proper nouns",
"Swedish terms spelled with W"
],
"glosses": [
"a diminutive of the male given names William and Wilhelm"
],
"links": [
[
"diminutive",
"diminutive"
],
[
"given names",
"given name"
],
[
"William",
"William#Swedish"
],
[
"Wilhelm",
"Wilhelm#Swedish"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"word": "Wille"
}
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