See benʸi on Wiktionary
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"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/benʸi",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Mongolian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Old Uyghur terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Turkic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Turkic lemmas",
"Proto-Turkic nouns",
"Proto-Turkic terms spelled with ʸ",
"Requests for native script for Chagatai terms",
"Requests for native script for Khalaj terms",
"trk-pro:Anatomy"
],
"glosses": [
"brain"
],
"links": [
[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
],
[
"brain",
"brain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anatomy) brain"
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
],
"topics": [
"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "benʸi"
}
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