See -na- on Wiktionary
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/Sw-ke-na.flac/Sw-ke-na.flac.ogg"
}
],
"word": "-na-"
}
Download raw JSONL data for -na- meaning in All languages combined (6.8kB)
{
"called_from": "linkages/371",
"msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: Telegrammic: ka-1 desc=Telegrammic rest=ka-1 cls=romanization cls2=romanization e1=False e2=False",
"path": [
"-na-"
],
"section": "Swahili",
"subsection": "infix",
"title": "-na-",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "linkages/371",
"msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: Gnomic: -a-1 desc=Gnomic rest=-a-1 cls=romanization cls2=romanization e1=False e2=False",
"path": [
"-na-"
],
"section": "Swahili",
"subsection": "infix",
"title": "-na-",
"trace": ""
}
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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.