See queth on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"cweth",
"cweth#Middle_English"
],
[
"queye",
"queye#Middle_English"
],
[
"bequeath",
"bequeath"
],
[
"cweþan",
"cweþan#Old_English"
],
[
"*kweþaną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kweþaną"
],
[
"*gʷet-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʷet-#Proto-Indo-European:_say"
]
],
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"name": "root"
},
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"3": "cweth"
},
"expansion": "Middle English cweth",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "cweþan"
},
"expansion": "Old English cweþan",
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},
{
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},
{
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"id": "say"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English cweth, queth, queye (mistake), related to the verb quethe and bequeath, from Old English cweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”).",
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{
"form": "queths",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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},
{
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},
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
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{
"glosses": [
"Speech, talk."
],
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"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Statement, saying, proverb."
],
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"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
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{
"_dis": "1 6 55 38",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "3 10 51 36",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 5 54 40",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt; quest."
],
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"links": [
[
"hunting dogs",
"hunting dogs"
],
[
"quest",
"quest"
]
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A corsepresent, mortuary."
],
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"links": [
[
"corsepresent",
"corsepresent"
],
[
"mortuary",
"mortuary"
]
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "queth"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "quethow",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{d2}}}",
"9": "plural",
"cat2": "",
"f4g": "",
"f5g": "",
"f6g": "",
"g": "m",
"head": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
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},
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],
"lang": "Cornish",
"lang_code": "kw",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
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"breasthook"
],
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],
[
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]
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"(nautical) breasthook"
],
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}
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]
}
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"5": "",
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"f4g": "",
"f5g": "",
"f6g": "",
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},
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"name": "head"
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{
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},
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],
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"Cornish lemmas",
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"(nautical) breasthook"
],
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"masculine"
],
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"nautical",
"transport"
]
}
],
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}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English obsolete terms",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷet- (say)",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"cweth",
"cweth#Middle_English"
],
[
"queye",
"queye#Middle_English"
],
[
"bequeath",
"bequeath"
],
[
"cweþan",
"cweþan#Old_English"
],
[
"*kweþaną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kweþaną"
],
[
"*gʷet-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʷet-#Proto-Indo-European:_say"
]
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gʷet-",
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"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "cweth"
},
"expansion": "Middle English cweth",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "cweþan"
},
"expansion": "Old English cweþan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"4": "",
"5": "to say, speak",
"id": "say"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English cweth, queth, queye (mistake), related to the verb quethe and bequeath, from Old English cweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”).",
"forms": [
{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"1": "s"
},
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},
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},
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Speech, talk."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Statement, saying, proverb."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt; quest."
],
"links": [
[
"hunting dogs",
"hunting dogs"
],
[
"quest",
"quest"
]
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A corsepresent, mortuary."
],
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[
"corsepresent",
"corsepresent"
],
[
"mortuary",
"mortuary"
]
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "queth"
}
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