See wetu on Wiktionary
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"James Hammond Trumbull"
]
}
],
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}
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}
],
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"we‧tu"
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
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"Pages with 5 entries",
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{
"word": "weto"
}
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]
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"ipa": "/ˈvɛ.tu/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛtu"
}
],
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}
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"Pages with entries",
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"Swahili non-lemma forms"
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"pos": "adj",
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{
"word": "-etu"
}
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"M class inflected form of -etu.",
"U class inflected form of -etu."
],
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"-etu",
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]
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],
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"-etu",
"etu#Swahili"
]
]
}
],
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}
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