See beth on Wiktionary
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"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "cy-mut",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "peth",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "beth",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"soft"
]
},
{
"form": "mheth",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "pheth",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "mutated noun"
},
"expansion": "beth",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "peth"
},
"name": "cy-mut"
}
],
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Welsh soft-mutation forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "peth"
}
],
"glosses": [
"soft mutation of peth"
],
"links": [
[
"peth",
"peth#Welsh"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"mutation-soft"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/beːθ/"
}
],
"word": "beth"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: beth/Old Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"beth"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "beth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
"path": [
"beth"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "beth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
"path": [
"beth"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "beth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: beth/Welsh 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"beth"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "beth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: beth/Welsh 'nasal' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"beth"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "beth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: beth/Welsh 'aspirate' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"beth"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "beth",
"trace": ""
}
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