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{
"categories": [
"Norwegian entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian female given names",
"Norwegian female given names from English",
"Norwegian given names",
"Norwegian lemmas",
"Norwegian proper nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name from English"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Evelyn"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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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