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"ref": "1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 248",
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"plural"
]
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]
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{
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
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"table-tags"
]
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{
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},
{
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "alfven",
"source": "declension",
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"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
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"source": "declension",
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"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
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"head": "",
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},
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}
],
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{
"extra": "elf",
"word": "alv"
}
],
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"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms derived from Old Norse",
"Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse",
"Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of alv (“elf”)"
],
"links": [
[
"alv",
"alv#Swedish"
]
],
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"alt-of",
"alternative",
"common-gender"
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"form": "ȧlf",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "wym",
"2": "numeral",
"head": "ȧlf"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "wym",
"pos": "num",
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{
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"Vilamovian cardinal numbers",
"Vilamovian entries with incorrect language header",
"Vilamovian lemmas",
"Vilamovian numerals",
"Vilamovian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Vilamovian terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"eleven"
],
"links": [
[
"eleven",
"eleven"
]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/alf/"
},
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"audio": "Wym-alf (wersja Józefa Gary).ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Wym-alf_%28wersja_J%C3%B3zefa_Gary%29.ogg",
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{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "numeral"
},
"expansion": "alf",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"pos": "num",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "alve"
}
],
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"West Frisian cardinal numbers",
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"West Frisian lemmas",
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],
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],
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]
],
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"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
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}
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