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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: nonproductive",
"path": [
"-ary"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-ary",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "wiktionary/179/20240425",
"msg": "-ary/English/suffix: 'word' is missing and should be a non-empty string: {\"code\": \"pl\", \"lang\": \"Polish\", \"lang_code\": \"pl\", \"note\": \"not used in Polish\", \"sense\": \"having the specified arity\"}",
"path": [],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-ary",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 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.
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