See lief on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339:",
"text": "Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.",
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"english": "“For thus says the Creator, ‘Make in this streambed many ditches. And you will see neither rain nor wind, but this streambed will be filled with water. You and your beasts will drink. This is a light thing before the Creator […] .’”",
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]
},
{
"form": "lief",
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"indefinite",
"masculine",
"nominative"
]
},
{
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]
},
{
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},
{
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"masculine",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "lieve",
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"adjective",
"definite",
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"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "lieven",
"source": "inflection",
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"accusative",
"adjective",
"indefinite",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "lieve",
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"adjective",
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]
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},
{
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"adjective",
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"plural"
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},
{
"form": "lieve",
"source": "inflection",
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"adjective",
"definite",
"masculine"
]
},
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"source": "inflection",
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"masculine"
]
},
{
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"indefinite"
]
},
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"genitive",
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"neuter"
]
},
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"masculine"
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{
"form": "lieven",
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"adjective",
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"genitive"
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},
{
"form": "lieven",
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"adjective",
"definite",
"feminine",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "lieven",
"source": "inflection",
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"adjective",
"dative",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "liever",
"source": "inflection",
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"adjective",
"dative",
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{
"form": "lieven",
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"adjective",
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},
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"lang": "Middle Dutch",
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{
"glosses": [
"loved, dear"
],
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[
"loved",
"loved"
],
[
"dear",
"dear"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"sweet, nice"
],
"links": [
[
"sweet",
"sweet"
],
[
"nice",
"nice"
]
]
}
],
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}
{
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"plural"
]
}
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"10": "",
"11": "",
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"6": "liefs",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
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},
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},
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"roof"
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"roof",
"roof"
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"(Jersey) roof"
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"Jersey",
"masculine"
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],
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{
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"Sark"
],
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}
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}
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"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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"name": "head"
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{
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"head": "liēf"
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"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"Old West Frisian form of liāf"
],
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[
"liāf",
"liaf#Old_Frisian"
]
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}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈli̯ɛːf/"
}
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}
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"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "osp",
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{
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{
"extra": "light, effortless",
"word": "lieue"
}
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"Old Spanish apocopic forms",
"Old Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Spanish lemmas",
"Old Spanish terms with quotations",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"english": "“For thus says the Creator, ‘Make in this streambed many ditches. And you will see neither rain nor wind, but this streambed will be filled with water. You and your beasts will drink. This is a light thing before the Creator […] .’”",
"ref": "c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v:",
"text": "ca aſſi diz el criador. fazed en eſta torriente muchos pozos enõ ueredes pluuia nj uiẽto en conplir ſea eſta torriente de agua. beuredes uos e ur̃as beſtias lief coſa es eſta delant el c̃ador […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Apocopic form of lieue; light, effortless"
],
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[
"lieue",
"lieue#Old_Spanish"
],
[
"light",
"light"
],
[
"effortless",
"effortless"
]
],
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"alt-of",
"apocopic"
]
}
],
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}
],
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}
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"1": "sco",
"2": "enm",
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}
],
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{
"form": "liefer",
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"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "liefest",
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"superlative"
]
}
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"Scots terms derived from Old English",
"Scots terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Scots terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Scots terms inherited from Middle English",
"Scots terms inherited from Old English",
"Scots terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Scots terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic"
],
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"dear, beloved"
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[
"dear",
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[
"beloved",
"beloved"
]
]
}
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{
"ipa": "[lif]"
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"contracted"
],
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}
],
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}
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"2": "enm",
"3": "lyf"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
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"1": "yol",
"2": "ang",
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},
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},
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"1": "yol",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*līb"
},
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"name": "inh"
}
],
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"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "lief",
"name": "head"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"Yola lemmas",
"Yola nouns",
"Yola terms derived from Middle English",
"Yola terms derived from Old English",
"Yola terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Yola terms inherited from Middle English",
"Yola terms inherited from Old English",
"Yola terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic"
],
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"life"
],
"links": [
[
"life",
"life"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/liːf/"
}
],
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{
"word": "life"
}
],
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}
{
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"1": "zea",
"2": "frk",
"3": "gem-pro",
"inh": "2"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "dercat"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "zea",
"2": "dum",
"3": "lijf"
},
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},
{
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},
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},
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}
],
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"6": "",
"7": "",
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"9": "",
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"name": "head"
},
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{
"categories": [
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"Pages with entries",
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"Zealandic entries with incorrect language header",
"Zealandic lemmas",
"Zealandic neuter nouns",
"Zealandic nouns",
"Zealandic terms derived from Frankish",
"Zealandic terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Zealandic terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Zealandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Zealandic terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Zealandic terms inherited from Frankish",
"Zealandic terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Zealandic terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Zealandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Zealandic terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"zea:Body"
],
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"body"
],
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[
"body",
"body"
]
],
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]
}
],
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}
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