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"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old Norse Yggdrasill, from Yggr + drasill (“steed”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "proper noun",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "Yggdrasil m",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Nynorsk learned borrowings from Old Norse",
"Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas",
"Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns",
"Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns",
"Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Old Norse",
"Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse",
"Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old Norse compound terms",
"nn:Norse mythology"
],
"glosses": [
"Yggdrasil"
],
"links": [
[
"Norse",
"Norse"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Yggdrasil",
"Yggdrasil#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Norse mythology) Yggdrasil"
],
"tags": [
"Norse",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/²ʏɡːˌdraːsɪl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/²ʏ(ɡ)draˌsiːl/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"alternative"
],
"word": "Ygdrasil"
},
{
"word": "Yggdrasel"
},
{
"word": "Ygdrasel"
}
],
"word": "Yggdrasil"
}
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