See elk on Wiktionary
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"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"roman": "elkkŭ",
"word": "എൽക്ക്"
},
{
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "elc"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"word": "elk"
}
],
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"2": "ang",
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},
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},
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"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*elh"
},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "felk",
"t": "felloe"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Apparently from Old English eolh, from Proto-West Germanic *elh, from Proto-Germanic *elhaz, though it is not found before 1475.\nFor the phonetic development, compare Middle English dwerk (“dwarf”) and dialectal English felk (“felloe”) and fleck (“flea”); according to Hamp, such forms were generalised from genitives in -es, where syncope occured followed by a development from /xs/ to /ks/.",
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{
"form": "elke",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"2": "noun"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"categories": [
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"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English rare terms",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Cervids"
],
"glosses": [
"elk, moose (Alces alces)"
],
"links": [
[
"elk",
"elk#English"
],
[
"moose",
"moose"
],
[
"Alces alces",
"Alces alces#Translingual"
]
],
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"(Late Middle English, rare) elk, moose (Alces alces)"
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English",
"rare"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɛlk/"
}
],
"word": "elk"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "mul",
"2": "en:Elkei"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of English Elkei",
"name": "clip"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of English Elkei.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "Latn"
},
"expansion": "Latn",
"name": "mul-symbol/script"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "mul",
"10": "",
"2": "symbol",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "or",
"6": "",
"7": "or",
"8": "",
"9": "or",
"cat2": "",
"f1lang": "en",
"f1nolink": "",
"f2lang": "en",
"f2nolink": "",
"f3lang": "en",
"f3nolink": "",
"f4lang": "en",
"f4nolink": "",
"head": "",
"head2": "",
"head3": "",
"head4": "",
"image": "",
"nolinkhead": "",
"sc": "Latn",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "elk",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "elk",
"name": "mul-symbol"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
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{
"word": "Wiktionary’s coverage of Elkei terms"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"ISO 639-3",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
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"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual symbols",
"Translingual terms derived from English",
"Translingual terms with redundant script codes"
],
"glosses": [
"ISO 639-3 language code for Elkei."
],
"links": [
[
"language code",
"language code"
]
],
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"(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Elkei."
]
}
],
"word": "elk"
}
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