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"text": "Päeva peale läheb ehk soojemaks.",
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"text": "Päeva peale läheb ehk soojemaks.",
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"or"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "elik"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Estonian terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"or"
],
"links": [
[
"or",
"or"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) or"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "või"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈehk/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈehk]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ehk"
},
{
"audio": "Et-ehk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Et-ehk.ogg/Et-ehk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Et-ehk.ogg",
"text": "Audio:"
}
],
"word": "ehk"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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