See vecums on Wiktionary
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39
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"english": "senility (lit. the weakness, feebleness of old age)",
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"english": "ripe (lit. gray) old age",
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"english": "old age (lit. old age days)",
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"english": "old age pension",
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24,
30
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44,
51
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"english": "(his) children will be his support in (his) old age",
"text": "bērni būs viņa atspaids vecumā",
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13,
19
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20,
27
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"english": "the trees fall from old age (= because they are very old)",
"text": "koki krīt no vecuma",
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],
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"phase",
"phase#English"
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16,
22
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25,
28
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"english": "the friends are the same age",
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"english": "without age limit",
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15
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11,
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12,
18
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11,
14
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"english": "pre-school age (approximately from 3 to 6)",
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13,
19
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12
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},
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31,
38
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27,
30
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"english": "badgers can live up to the age of 15 years",
"text": "āpši var nodzīvot līdz 15 gadu vecumam",
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},
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44,
50
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46,
49
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"english": "I have been chopping wood for mother from the age of six years",
"text": "mātei malku esmu skaldījis jau no sešu gadu vecuma",
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"pass#English"
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"since#English"
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"english": "his black coat gleamed from oldness, being old",
"text": "viņa melnais svārki no liela vecuma spīdēja",
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"english": "senility (lit. the weakness, feebleness of old age)",
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"english": "ripe (lit. gray) old age",
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"english": "old age (lit. old age days)",
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0,
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0,
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"english": "old age pension",
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24,
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44,
51
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"english": "(his) children will be his support in (his) old age",
"text": "bērni būs viņa atspaids vecumā",
"translation": "(his) children will be his support in (his) old age",
"type": "example"
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13,
19
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20,
27
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"english": "the trees fall from old age (= because they are very old)",
"text": "koki krīt no vecuma",
"translation": "the trees fall from old age (= because they are very old)",
"type": "example"
}
],
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],
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],
[
"last",
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],
[
"phase",
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],
[
"life",
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],
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16,
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25,
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"english": "the friends are the same age",
"text": "draugi ir vienā vecumā",
"translation": "the friends are the same age",
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4,
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"english": "without age limit",
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9,
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11,
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"english": "retirement age",
"text": "pensijas vecums",
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12,
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11,
14
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"english": "pre-school age (approximately from 3 to 6)",
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7,
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7,
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"english": "school age (approximately from 7 to 18)",
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13,
19
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9,
12
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"english": "geologic age",
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31,
38
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27,
30
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"english": "badgers can live up to the age of 15 years",
"text": "āpši var nodzīvot līdz 15 gadu vecumam",
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44,
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"english": "I have been chopping wood for mother from the age of six years",
"text": "mātei malku esmu skaldījis jau no sešu gadu vecuma",
"translation": "I have been chopping wood for mother from the age of six years",
"type": "example"
}
],
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],
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],
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[
"pass",
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],
[
"since",
"since#English"
],
[
"person",
"person#English"
],
[
"birth",
"birth#English"
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"english": "his black coat gleamed from oldness, being old",
"text": "viņa melnais svārki no liela vecuma spīdēja",
"translation": "his black coat gleamed from oldness, being old",
"type": "example"
}
],
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[
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vecība"
}
],
"word": "vecums"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.