See SPELḰIȾE¸ on Wiktionary
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"english": "to be spooked (by an owl or ghost)",
"translation": "to be spooked (by an owl or ghost)",
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"name": "af"
}
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"etymology_text": "From S- (nominalizing prefix) + *PELḰ (“ghost”) + -IȾE¸ (“cloth”), referring to the traditional belief of screech owls being spirits of the dead.",
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{
"form": "SPELḰIȾÁ¸",
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"english": "to be haunted",
"translation": "to be haunted",
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27,
36
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25,
36
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"english": "Aren’t you afraid of the screech owl?",
"text": "EWÁ¸ E Ȼ EN¸ SSȺ¸SI¸ E TŦE SPELḰIȾE¸?",
"translation": "Aren’t you afraid of the screech owl?",
"type": "example"
}
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"screech owl (any owl of the Megascops genus)"
],
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"screech owl",
"screech owl"
],
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"Megascops",
"Megascops#Translingual"
]
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"parents": [],
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"ghost (spirit of the dead)"
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"(folklore) ghost (spirit of the dead)"
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"corpse (of humans)"
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"corpse",
"corpse"
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"(figurative, by extension) corpse (of humans)"
],
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"word": "SNIYNJ"
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"word": "SPELḰIȾE¸"
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"str:Death",
"str:Ghosts",
"str:Owls",
"str:People",
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"translation": "to be spooked (by an owl or ghost)",
"word": "SPELḰIȾE¸TEṈ"
}
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"name": "af"
}
],
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"english": "to be haunted",
"translation": "to be haunted",
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36
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25,
36
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"english": "Aren’t you afraid of the screech owl?",
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}
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"screech owl (any owl of the Megascops genus)"
],
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],
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"Megascops#Translingual"
]
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"ghost (spirit of the dead)"
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"ghost",
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"(folklore) ghost (spirit of the dead)"
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"history",
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"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
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"corpse (of humans)"
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"corpse"
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"(figurative, by extension) corpse (of humans)"
],
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{
"word": "SNIYNJ"
}
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"broadly",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"word": "SPELḰIȾE¸"
}
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"msg": "unrecognized head form: Americanist spelling spəlqʷít̕ᶿəʔ",
"path": [
"SPELḰIȾE¸"
],
"section": "Saanich",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "SPELḰIȾE¸",
"trace": ""
}
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