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"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"is:Norse mythology"
],
"glosses": [
"Sif (wife of Thor)"
],
"links": [
[
"Norse",
"Norse"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Sif",
"#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Norse mythology) Sif (wife of Thor)"
],
"tags": [
"Norse",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Icelandic female given names",
"Icelandic given names"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɪːv/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪːv"
}
],
"word": "Sif"
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Icelandic]; cleaned text: f-s1",
"path": [
"Sif"
],
"section": "Icelandic",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Sif",
"trace": ""
}
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