See nug on Wiktionary
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"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mww",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "nug",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "White Hmong",
"lang_code": "mww",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"White Hmong entries with incorrect language header",
"White Hmong lemmas",
"White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmongic",
"White Hmong terms inherited from Proto-Hmongic",
"White Hmong terms with IPA pronunciation",
"White Hmong verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to ask; to question"
],
"links": [
[
"ask",
"ask"
],
[
"question",
"question"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nu˧˩̤/"
}
],
"word": "nug"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: nug/Welsh 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"nug"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "nug",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: nug/Welsh 'nasal' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"nug"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "nug",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: nug/Welsh 'aspirate' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"nug"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "nug",
"trace": ""
}
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