See berkan on Wiktionary
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]
},
{
"form": "burkī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "birkidi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bark",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "berkum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "burkum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "birkid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "burkud",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "berkand",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "burkun",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "berkē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "burkī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "berkēs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "berkē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "burkī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "berkēm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "burkīm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "berkēþ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "burkīd",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "berkēn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "burkīn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "birk",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "birkid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "berkandī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "borkan",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "*berkan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "gmw-infl-verb-st"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
"lang_code": "gmw-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/berkan",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"Old-English"
],
"word": "borcian"
},
{
"word": "burkōn"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-West Germanic class 3 strong verbs",
"Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-West Germanic lemmas",
"Proto-West Germanic terms with unknown etymologies",
"Proto-West Germanic verbs",
"gmw-pro:Animal sounds"
],
"glosses": [
"to bark"
],
"links": [
[
"bark",
"bark"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
]
}
],
"word": "berkan"
}
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