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{
"args": {
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{
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{
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{
"args": {
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],
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"text": "→ Norwegian:"
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],
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"superlative degree plural of bra"
],
"links": [
[
"best",
"best#Norwegian Nynorsk"
],
[
"bra",
"bra#Norwegian Nynorsk"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"plural",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"word": "beste"
}
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"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "bestefar",
"g": "m",
"nocap": "1",
"t": "grandfather"
},
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"name": "clipping"
},
{
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"1": "nn",
"2": "bestemor",
"g": "f",
"t": "grandmother"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "best",
"3": "",
"4": "best"
},
"expansion": "best (“best”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "besten",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestar",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestane",
"tags": [
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"granddad"
],
"links": [
[
"granddad",
"granddad"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
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}
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"etymology_number": 2,
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"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "bestefar",
"g": "m",
"nocap": "1",
"t": "grandfather"
},
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"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "bestemor",
"g": "f",
"t": "grandmother"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "best",
"3": "",
"4": "best"
},
"expansion": "best (“best”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
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{
"form": "besta",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bester",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestene",
"tags": [
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"grandma"
],
"links": [
[
"grandma",
"grandma"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "beste"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_text": "A nominal use of Etymology 1.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "noun",
"g": "n"
},
"expansion": "beste n",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"best"
],
"links": [
[
"best",
"best"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "beste"
}
{
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "gml",
"3": "basten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German basten",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "besten"
},
"expansion": "besten",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Low German basten, besten.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bestar",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bester",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "besta",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "beste",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "besta",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past",
"supine"
]
},
{
"form": "best",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past",
"supine"
]
},
{
"form": "bestande",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "best",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"10": "beste",
"11": "supine and past participle",
"12": "besta",
"13": "or",
"14": "best",
"15": "present participle",
"16": "bestande",
"17": "imperative",
"18": "best",
"2": "verb",
"3": "present tense",
"4": "bestar",
"5": "or",
"6": "bester",
"7": "past tense",
"8": "besta",
"9": "or",
"cat2": "weak verbs"
},
"expansion": "beste (present tense bestar or bester, past tense besta or beste, supine and past participle besta or best, present participle bestande, imperative best)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "baste"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to sew loosely, to sew together using only a few stitches"
],
"links": [
[
"sew",
"sew"
],
[
"loosely",
"loosely"
],
[
"stitch",
"stitch"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"alt": "a-infinitive",
"word": "besta"
}
],
"word": "beste"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"2": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle French: beste",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle French: beste"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "bête"
},
"expansion": "French: bête",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: bête"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-gal",
"2": "bestt"
},
"expansion": "Gallo: bestt",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Gallo: bestt"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "baête"
},
"expansion": "Norman: baête",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Cotentin"
},
"expansion": "(Cotentin)",
"name": "qualifier"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "beyte"
},
"expansion": "beyte",
"name": "l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Pays de Caux, Pays de Rouen"
},
"expansion": "(Pays de Caux, Pays de Rouen)",
"name": "qualifier"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "beet"
},
"expansion": "beet",
"name": "l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Sark"
},
"expansion": "(Sark)",
"name": "qualifier"
}
],
"text": "Norman: baête (Cotentin), beyte (Pays de Caux, Pays de Rouen), beet (Sark)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "beest",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle Dutch: beest",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle Dutch: beest"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "beest"
},
"expansion": "Dutch: beest\nAfrikaans: bees\nJersey Dutch: bêst, beîśe\nNegerhollands: beest\n→ Papiamentu: bichi\n→ Sranan Tongo: beist",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Dutch: beest\nAfrikaans: bees\nJersey Dutch: bêst, beîśe\nNegerhollands: beest\n→ Papiamentu: bichi\n→ Sranan Tongo: beist"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "best",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle Low German: best",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle Low German: best"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "Beest"
},
"expansion": "Low German: Beest",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Low German: Beest"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "bæst",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Danish: bæst",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Danish: bæst"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Biest",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Biest",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Biest"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "→ Norwegian:"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "beist",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: beist, best",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Norwegian Bokmål: beist, best"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "beist"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: beist",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: beist"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "best",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Swedish: best",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Swedish: best"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "beeste",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle English: beeste, beste, beest, best, beast, beaste\nEnglish: beast\nScots: beast\nYola: beast",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle English: beeste, beste, beest, best, beast, beaste\nEnglish: beast\nScots: beast\nYola: beast"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "bēstia"
},
"expansion": "Latin bēstia",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "bisse"
},
"expansion": "bisse",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "biche"
},
"expansion": "French biche",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "bīstia"
},
"expansion": "bīstia",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "bēstula"
},
"expansion": "bēstula",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "bēstia"
},
"expansion": "bēstia",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "bīstia"
},
"expansion": "bīstia",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably a semi-learned term borrowed partly from Latin bēstia. Compare bisse (modern French biche), which was popularly inherited from a variant (bīstia) of the same word. An alternative hypothesis derives beste from an unattested Vulgar Latin variant form *bēsta (deduced through a supposed diminutive form bēstula), though this is unlikely as it would assume there was a second popular variant of bēstia (bīstia being well attested).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "beste oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "bestes",
"tags": [
"oblique",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "beste",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestes",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "beste oblique singular, f (oblique plural bestes, nominative singular beste, nominative plural bestes)",
"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Old French feminine nouns",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French nouns",
"Old French terms derived from Latin",
"fro:Animals"
],
"glosses": [
"beast, animal"
],
"links": [
[
"beast",
"beast"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
]
]
}
],
"word": "beste"
}
{
"categories": [
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese non-lemma forms",
"Portuguese verb forms"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "beste",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bestar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of bestar:\n## first/third-person singular present subjunctive\n## third-person singular imperative",
"first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"bestar",
"bestar#Portuguese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"inflection of bestar:\n"
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bestar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of bestar:\n## first/third-person singular present subjunctive\n## third-person singular imperative",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"bestar",
"bestar#Portuguese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"inflection of bestar:\n"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "beste"
}
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