See curca on Wiktionary
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],
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},
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"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
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},
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"form": "an curca",
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"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
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"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
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"form": "an churca",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na gcurcaí",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an gcurca",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don churca",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis na curcaí",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
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"error-unrecognized-form"
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"source": "mutation",
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"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
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"14": "",
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"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
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"lang": "Irish",
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"crest, tuft"
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"(of a bird) crest, tuft"
],
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"topknot"
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"cockade"
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"word": "curca"
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"Irish fourth-declension nouns",
"Irish lemmas",
"Irish masculine nouns",
"Irish nouns",
"Irish terms derived from Middle Irish",
"Irish terms derived from Old French",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
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{
"english": "crested",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"translation": "crested",
"word": "curcach"
},
{
"word": "cuircín"
}
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"3": "curracach"
},
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"name": "der"
},
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"1": "wlm",
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"3": "pyrchwyn",
"t": "crest of a helmet"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
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"1": "sco",
"2": "curch"
},
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{
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"expansion": "English kerchief",
"name": "cog"
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"1": "ga",
"2": "fro",
"3": "cuevrechief"
},
"expansion": "Old French cuevrechief",
"name": "der"
}
],
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"forms": [
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"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "curcaí",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
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"form": "curca",
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"nominative",
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"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
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"plural",
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"nominative",
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]
},
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"form": "na curcaí",
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"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
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"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
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"genitive",
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"definite",
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}
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