See ferhuz on Wiktionary
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]
},
{
"categories": [
"East Proto-Germanic"
],
"glosses": [
"life, being, existence",
"the world"
],
"links": [
[
"life",
"life"
],
[
"being",
"being"
],
[
"existence",
"existence"
],
[
"world",
"world"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"life, being, existence",
"(East Germanic) the world"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "*ferhwą"
},
{
"word": "*lībą"
},
{
"word": "*weraldiz"
}
],
"tags": [
"East",
"Germanic",
"masculine",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɸer.xuz/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-er.xuz"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
],
"word": "ferhuz"
}
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