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"German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"word": "-el"
},
{
"word": "-'l"
},
{
"word": "-l"
},
{
"tags": [
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],
"word": "-le"
},
{
"tags": [
"Switzerland"
],
"word": "-li"
},
{
"word": "-lin"
},
{
"english": "chiefly Early New High German",
"word": "-elin"
},
{
"english": "chiefly in poetry",
"word": "-elein"
}
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