See hwi on Wiktionary
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{
"word": "tejy"
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{
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{
"word": "eev"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "agan"
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{
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{
"word": "'gas"
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{
"word": "agas"
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{
"word": "i"
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{
"word": "ynsi"
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{
"word": "agaA"
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12,
15
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],
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"you",
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{
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"alternative"
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"english": "Why do you speak of that, woman, so much (you) remind me pressingly in front of this crowd?",
"roman": "Te huī sprikis thū thes wīf, sō filu manos mī far thesoro mėnigi?",
"text": "Heliand, verse 2026-2027",
"type": "quotation"
}
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{
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"args": {
"1": "owl",
"2": "hui"
},
"expansion": "Old Welsh: hui",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Welsh: hui"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "chwi",
"3": "chi"
},
"expansion": "Welsh: chwi, chi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Welsh: chwi, chi"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cel-bry-pro",
"2": "cel-pro",
"3": "*swīs"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Celtic *swīs",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *swīs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ti",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cel-bry-pro",
"2": "pronoun",
"3": "singular",
"4": "*ti",
"cat2": "personal pronouns"
},
"expansion": "*hwi (singular *ti)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Brythonic",
"lang_code": "cel-bry-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/hwi",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Brythonic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Brythonic lemmas",
"Proto-Brythonic personal pronouns",
"Proto-Brythonic pronouns",
"Proto-Brythonic terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
"Proto-Brythonic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic"
],
"glosses": [
"you pl"
],
"links": [
[
"you",
"you#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "hwi"
}
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