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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "archi-"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "arqui-"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "arxi-",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "архи-"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sverx-",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "сверх-"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nai-",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "наи-"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "nad-"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "archi-"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "arqui-"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "arzo-"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "ärke-"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "baş-"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "tổng"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "chief, highest, most extreme",
"word": "arch-"
}
],
"word": "arch-"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "la",
"3": "archi-"
},
"expansion": "Latin archi-",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "en",
"3": "arch-"
},
"expansion": "English arch-",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kw",
"2": "argh-"
},
"expansion": "Cornish argh-",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin archi- or English arch-. Cognate with Cornish argh-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "cy-mut",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "arch-",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "harch-",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"prothesis-h"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "prefix"
},
"expansion": "arch-",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "cy-mut"
}
],
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages using catfix",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
"Welsh lemmas",
"Welsh prefixes",
"Welsh terms borrowed from English",
"Welsh terms borrowed from Latin",
"Welsh terms derived from English",
"Welsh terms derived from Latin"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "arch- + angel (“angel”) → archangel (“archangel”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "arch- + marchnad (“market”) → archfarchnad (“supermarket”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "arch- + esgobaeth (“bishopric”) → archesgobaeth (“archbishopric, primacy”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"great, chief, arch-, super-"
],
"links": [
[
"great",
"great"
],
[
"chief",
"chief"
],
[
"arch-",
"arch-"
],
[
"super-",
"super-"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/arχ/"
}
],
"word": "arch-"
}
Download raw JSONL data for arch- meaning in All languages combined (14.5kB)
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: arch-/Welsh 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"arch-"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "prefix",
"title": "arch-",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: arch-/Welsh 'nasal' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"arch-"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "prefix",
"title": "arch-",
"trace": ""
}
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