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"ref": "1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]",
"text": "Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.",
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"ref": "1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16",
"text": "[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]",
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"ref": "1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131",
"text": "The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.",
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"ref": "1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26",
"text": "The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]",
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"ref": "a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59",
"text": "For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]",
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"ref": "1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1",
"text": "[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]",
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"ref": "1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]",
"text": "Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]",
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"ref": "1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14",
"text": "These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]",
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"ref": "1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58",
"text": "The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]",
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"ref": "1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173",
"text": "The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.",
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"ref": "1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1",
"text": "The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]",
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"ref": "1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159",
"text": "Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.",
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"ref": "1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364",
"text": "Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.",
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"ref": "1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1",
"text": "Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.",
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"ref": "1903, Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, “NAT, s.”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 619, column 2",
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"ref": "1917 November, Elizabeth Clendenning Ring, “Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry”, in The Book News Monthly, volume 36, page 109, column 1",
"text": "Elfs and fays, from their haunts in the mountains, whistle their eerie ballads above the gray roof of “Dove Cottage,” and dance their ghostly jigs on the huge hearthstone, among whose blazing logs the Fire God paints his immortal canvases, with colorings splendid beyond the dream of man.",
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"ref": "2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, Hollow Earth Publishing, page 254",
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"text": "We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.",
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"Edmund Spenser",
"Google Ngram Viewer",
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"Laurence Eusden",
"Nathaniel Hawthorne",
"Oliver and Boyd",
"Paul Laurence Dunbar",
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"Sabine Baring-Gould",
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[
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"2": "nl",
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"2": "dum",
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"1": "dum",
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"2": "numeral"
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{
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w"
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"singular"
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"plural"
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"singular"
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{
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"dative",
"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfe",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "elfové",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "elfovi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "elfem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"plural"
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"name": "Czech entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entry maintenance"
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"name": "Mythological creatures",
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"Mythology",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"source": "w"
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"masculine"
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"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "ellef"
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{
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"1": "dum",
"2": "elf"
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"2": "odt",
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"name": "m"
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"2": "elf"
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"args": {
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"2": "alve"
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"2": "elleve"
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"2": "numeral"
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"expansion": "elf",
"name": "head"
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"Numbers",
"All topics",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental"
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"kind": "topical",
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"parents": [
"Numbers",
"All topics",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental"
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "nl",
"name": "One",
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"All topics",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental"
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"name": "desc"
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"2": "alfu",
"3": "elfu"
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"2": "ālf"
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"name": "desc"
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"2": "elf",
"3": "elef"
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"name": "desc"
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{
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"2": "elk"
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"name": "desc"
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{
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"2": "erfu",
"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Sranan Tongo: erfu"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "djk",
"2": "elufu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Aukan: elufu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Aukan: elufu"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srm",
"2": "elúfu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Saramaccan: elúfu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Saramaccan: elúfu"
}
],
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"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "ellef"
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"expansion": "Middle Dutch ellef",
"name": "inh"
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{
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"1": "dum",
"2": "elf"
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"expansion": "elf",
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{
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"2": "odt",
"3": "*ellef"
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"expansion": "Old Dutch *ellef",
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{
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"2": "gem-pro",
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"2": "*-lif"
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"expansion": "*-lif",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "elf"
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "alve"
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{
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"2": "elleve"
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],
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"plural"
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{
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"neuter"
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"2": "-ven",
"3": "elfje"
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 14 19 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "56 8 22 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant alt parameters",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 4 6 50",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "nl",
"name": "One",
"orig": "nl:One",
"parents": [
"Numbers",
"All topics",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"The number eleven, or a representation thereof."
],
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[
"eleven",
"eleven"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
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{
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlf"
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{
"audio": "Nl-elf.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg/Nl-elf.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
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}
{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "boself"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "elfenbank"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "elfin"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "kerstelf"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "woudelf"
}
],
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{
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{
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"1": "pap",
"2": "èlfye",
"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "from the diminutive"
},
"expansion": "(from the diminutive)",
"name": "q"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "de",
"3": "Elf"
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"name": "bor"
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "en",
"3": "elf"
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"expansion": "English elf",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "ang",
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "alf"
},
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"name": "m"
}
],
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{
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"tags": [
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "elven",
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfje",
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"diminutive",
"neuter"
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},
{
"form": "elve",
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"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "elfin",
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"feminine"
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}
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{
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[
"elf",
"#English"
],
[
"brownie",
"brownie#English"
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"masculine"
]
},
{
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{
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"langcode": "nl",
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"Speculative fiction",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
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"Entertainment",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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],
"id": "en-elf-nl-noun-2xnRsCvy",
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
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[
"elf",
"elf#English"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fantasy) elf (humanoid pointy-eared creature in fantasy)"
],
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{
"_dis1": "10 90",
"sense": "mythical being",
"word": "alf"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"fantasy"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɛl(ə)f/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlf"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-elf.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg/Nl-elf.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "nds-nl",
"2": "nds",
"3": "-"
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-nl",
"2": "gml",
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{
"args": {
"1": "nds-nl",
"2": "osx",
"3": "ellevan"
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "German elf",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "nds-nl",
"2": "numeral"
},
"expansion": "elf",
"name": "head"
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{
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{
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"Entry maintenance"
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{
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w"
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[
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]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gmh",
"3": "eilf"
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "einlif"
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "goh",
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{
"args": {
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{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "eilf"
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gml",
"3": "elf"
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"expansion": "Middle Low German elf",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "Dutch elf",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "alve"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian alve",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "eleven"
},
"expansion": "English eleven",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "elleve"
},
"expansion": "Danish elleve",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "numeral"
},
"expansion": "elf",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "num",
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{
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{
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"name": "German cardinal numbers",
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"Numbers",
"All topics",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental"
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"source": "w"
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{
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w"
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "German links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w"
}
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"word": "null"
},
{
"word": "eins"
},
{
"word": "zwei"
},
{
"word": "drei"
},
{
"word": "vier"
},
{
"word": "fünf"
},
{
"word": "sechs"
},
{
"word": "sieben"
},
{
"word": "acht"
},
{
"word": "neun"
},
{
"word": "zehn"
},
{
"word": "zwölf"
},
{
"word": "dreizehn"
},
{
"word": "vierzehn"
},
{
"word": "fünfzehn"
},
{
"word": "sechzehn"
},
{
"word": "siebzehn"
},
{
"word": "achtzehn"
},
{
"word": "neunzehn"
},
{
"word": "zwanzig"
},
{
"word": "einundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "zweiundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "achtundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundzwanzig"
},
{
"word": "Germany"
},
{
"word": "Austria: dreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: dreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: einunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: einunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: zweiunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: zweiunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: dreiunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: dreiunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: vierunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: vierunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: fünfunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: fünfunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: sechsunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: sechsunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: siebenunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: siebenunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: achtunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: achtunddreissig"
},
{
"word": "Austria: neununddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: neununddreissig"
},
{
"word": "vierzig"
},
{
"word": "einundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "zweiundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "achtundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfzig"
},
{
"word": "einundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "zweiundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "achtundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "sechzig"
},
{
"word": "einundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "zweiundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "achtundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "siebzig"
},
{
"word": "einundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "zweiundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "achtundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundsiebzig"
},
{
"word": "achtzig"
},
{
"word": "einundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "zweiundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "achtundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "neunzig"
},
{
"word": "einundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "zweiundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "fünfundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "achtundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundneunzig"
},
{
"word": "100: hundert"
},
{
"word": "einhundert"
},
{
"word": "103: tausend"
},
{
"word": "eintausend"
},
{
"alt": "Myriade",
"word": "104: zehntausend"
},
{
"alt": "tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend",
"word": "106: Million"
},
{
"word": "109: Milliarde"
},
{
"word": "1012: Billion"
},
{
"word": "1015: Billiarde"
},
{
"word": "1018: Trillion"
},
{
"word": "1021: Trilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1024: Quadrillion"
},
{
"word": "1027: Quadrilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1030: Quintillion"
},
{
"word": "1033: Quintilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1036: Sextillion"
},
{
"word": "1039: Sextilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1042: Septillion"
},
{
"word": "1045: Septilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1048: Oktillion"
},
{
"word": "1051: Oktilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1054: Nonillion"
},
{
"word": "1057: Nonilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1060: Dezillion"
},
{
"word": "1063: Dezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1066: Undezillion"
},
{
"word": "1069: Undezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1072: Duodezillion"
},
{
"word": "1075: Duodezilliarde"
},
{
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},
{
"word": "1081: Tredezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1084: Quattuordezillion"
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{
"word": "1087: Quattuordezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "10100: Googol"
},
{
"word": "10120: Vigintillion"
},
{
"word": "10123: Vigintilliarde"
},
{
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],
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "elfstündig"
}
],
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[
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[
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"eleven"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(cardinal number) eleven"
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{
"word": "eilff"
},
{
"word": "eylf"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "eylff"
}
],
"tags": [
"cardinal",
"numeral"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/ɛlf/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ʔɛlf]"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/De-elf.ogg/De-elf.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/De-elf.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
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"2": "gml",
"3": "elvene"
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"name": "inh"
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{
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"2": "osx",
"3": "ellevan"
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"3": "elf"
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"expansion": "English elf",
"name": "der"
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],
"etymology_text": "From English elf.",
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"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "elfa",
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"singular"
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},
{
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"6": "elfa",
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"g": "m"
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"name": "head"
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],
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{
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"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
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"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "elf c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "elf c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"fv": "v"
},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-ar"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "elf",
"2": "elfven",
"3": "elfvar",
"4": "elfvarna",
"5": "elfs",
"6": "elfvens",
"7": "elfvars",
"8": "elfvarnas",
"base": "elf",
"definitions": "",
"gender": "Common"
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"name": "sv-decl-noun"
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "älv"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
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],
"id": "en-elf-sv-noun-4Cf9~pjt",
"links": [
[
"älv",
"älv#Swedish"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"common-gender",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "enm",
"3": "elf"
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"expansion": "Middle English elf",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ielf"
},
"expansion": "Old English ielf",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*albi"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *albi",
"name": "inh"
}
],
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{
"form": "elvès",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "noun",
"3": "plural",
"4": "elvès"
},
"expansion": "elf (plural elvès)",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "yol",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"fairy"
],
"id": "en-elf-yol-noun-WoHmqnVW",
"links": [
[
"fairy",
"fairy"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɛɫɸ/"
}
],
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}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "nl",
"3": "elf"
},
"expansion": "Dutch elf",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "dum",
"3": "ellef"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch ellef",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "elf",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*ellef"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *ellef",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*ainalif"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ainalif",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dutch elf, from Middle Dutch ellef, elf, from Old Dutch *ellef, from Proto-Germanic *ainalif.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "numeral"
},
"expansion": "elf",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"lang_code": "af",
"pos": "num",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Afrikaans cardinal numbers",
"Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header",
"Afrikaans lemmas",
"Afrikaans numerals",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Afrikaans terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Afrikaans terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Afrikaans terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"eleven"
],
"links": [
[
"eleven",
"eleven"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɛlf/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-elf.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d3/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Oesjaar-elf.wav/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Oesjaar-elf.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d3/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Oesjaar-elf.wav/LL-Q14196_%28afr%29-Oesjaar-elf.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"AF"
],
"text": "Audio (AF)"
}
],
"word": "elf"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "elfs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "elf m (plural elfs)",
"name": "ca-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Catalan countable nouns",
"Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"Catalan lemmas",
"Catalan masculine nouns",
"Catalan nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"elf"
],
"links": [
[
"elf",
"elf#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "elf"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "elfí"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "animate",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "cs-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "elf",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfové",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfů",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfovi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfům",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfe",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "elfové",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "elfovi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfech",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m-an"
},
"expansion": "elf m anim",
"name": "cs-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m.an.nomplové"
},
"name": "cs-ndecl"
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],
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"lang_code": "cs",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Czech animate nouns",
"Czech entries with incorrect language header",
"Czech hard masculine animate nouns",
"Czech lemmas",
"Czech masculine animate nouns",
"Czech masculine nouns",
"Czech nouns",
"Czech terms with IPA pronunciation",
"cs:Mythological creatures"
],
"glosses": [
"elf"
],
"links": [
[
"elf",
"elf#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈɛlf]"
}
],
"word": "elf"
}
{
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"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Dutch entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Dutch feminine nouns",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch links with redundant alt parameters",
"Dutch masculine nouns",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Dutch numerals",
"Dutch terms borrowed from German",
"Dutch terms derived from English",
"Dutch terms derived from German",
"Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Old English",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Dutch terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf/1 syllable",
"nl:Eleven",
"nl:One"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "ellef"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch ellef",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "elf",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*ellef"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *ellef",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*ainalif"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ainalif",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*ainaz"
},
"expansion": "*ainaz",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*-lif"
},
"expansion": "*-lif",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "German elf",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "alve"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian alve",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "eleven"
},
"expansion": "English eleven",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "elleve"
},
"expansion": "Danish elleve",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch ellef, elf, from Old Dutch *ellef, from Proto-Germanic *ainalif, a compound of *ainaz and *-lif. Compare German elf, West Frisian alve, English eleven, Danish elleve.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "numeral"
},
"expansion": "elf",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"elf"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "num",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Dutch cardinal numbers"
],
"glosses": [
"eleven"
],
"links": [
[
"eleven",
"eleven"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɛl(ə)f/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlf"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-elf.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg/Nl-elf.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
"word": "elf"
}
{
"categories": [
"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Dutch entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Dutch feminine nouns",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch links with redundant alt parameters",
"Dutch masculine nouns",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Dutch numerals",
"Dutch terms borrowed from German",
"Dutch terms derived from English",
"Dutch terms derived from German",
"Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Old English",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Dutch terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf/1 syllable",
"nl:Eleven",
"nl:One"
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{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "Afrikaans: elf",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Afrikaans: elf"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "brc",
"2": "alfu",
"3": "elfu"
},
"expansion": "Berbice Creole Dutch: alfu, elfu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Berbice Creole Dutch: alfu, elfu"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-jdt",
"2": "ālf"
},
"expansion": "Jersey Dutch: ālf",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Jersey Dutch: ālf"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dcr",
"2": "elf",
"3": "elef"
},
"expansion": "Negerhollands: elf, elef",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Negerhollands: elf, elef"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "skw",
"2": "elk"
},
"expansion": "Skepi Creole Dutch: elk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Skepi Creole Dutch: elk"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "erfu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Sranan Tongo: erfu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Sranan Tongo: erfu"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "djk",
"2": "elufu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Aukan: elufu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Aukan: elufu"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srm",
"2": "elúfu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Saramaccan: elúfu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Saramaccan: elúfu"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "ellef"
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"expansion": "Middle Dutch ellef",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "elf",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*ellef"
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"expansion": "Old Dutch *ellef",
"name": "inh"
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{
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"1": "nl",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*ainalif"
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"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ainalif",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*ainaz"
},
"expansion": "*ainaz",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*-lif"
},
"expansion": "*-lif",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "elf"
},
"expansion": "German elf",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "alve"
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"expansion": "West Frisian alve",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "eleven"
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"expansion": "English eleven",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "elleve"
},
"expansion": "Danish elleve",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"form": "elven",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfje",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "-ven",
"3": "elfje"
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"expansion": "elf f (plural elven, diminutive elfje n)",
"name": "nl-noun"
}
],
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"elf"
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"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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[
"eleven",
"eleven"
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],
"tags": [
"feminine"
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}
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{
"ipa": "/ɛl(ə)f/"
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{
"rhymes": "-ɛlf"
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{
"audio": "Nl-elf.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg/Nl-elf.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
"word": "elf"
}
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"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Dutch entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch masculine nouns",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Dutch terms borrowed from German",
"Dutch terms derived from English",
"Dutch terms derived from German",
"Dutch terms derived from Old English",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Dutch terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf/1 syllable",
"nl:Eleven",
"nl:One"
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"word": "boself"
},
{
"word": "elfenbank"
},
{
"word": "elfin"
},
{
"word": "kerstelf"
},
{
"word": "woudelf"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pap",
"2": "èlfye",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Papiamentu: èlfye",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "from the diminutive"
},
"expansion": "(from the diminutive)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "→ Papiamentu: èlfye (from the diminutive)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "de",
"3": "Elf"
},
"expansion": "German Elf",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "en",
"3": "elf"
},
"expansion": "English elf",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ælf"
},
"expansion": "Old English ælf",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*albi"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *albi",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*albiz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *albiz",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "alf"
},
"expansion": "alf",
"name": "m"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elven",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfje",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "elve",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "elfin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
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}
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"elf"
],
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{
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"elf, brownie (small folkloric creature)"
],
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"elf",
"#English"
],
[
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"brownie#English"
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"nl:Fantasy"
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"elf (humanoid pointy-eared creature in fantasy)"
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[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
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[
"elf",
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"(fantasy) elf (humanoid pointy-eared creature in fantasy)"
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"fantasy"
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{
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"args": {
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"2": "nds",
"3": "-"
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"name": "inh"
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{
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"1": "nds-nl",
"2": "gml",
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{
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"2": "osx",
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},
{
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"1": "de",
"2": "elf"
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}
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"2": "numeral"
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"Dutch Low Saxon numerals",
"Dutch Low Saxon terms derived from Low German",
"Dutch Low Saxon terms derived from Middle Low German",
"Dutch Low Saxon terms derived from Old Saxon",
"Dutch Low Saxon terms inherited from Low German",
"Dutch Low Saxon terms inherited from Middle Low German",
"Dutch Low Saxon terms inherited from Old Saxon"
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"eleven (11)"
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[
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}
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"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlf",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlf/1 syllable",
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"en:Percoid fish",
"en:Stock characters"
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"word": "dark elf"
},
{
"word": "elf and safety"
},
{
"word": "elf arrow"
},
{
"word": "elf-bolt"
},
{
"word": "elf-cap moss"
},
{
"word": "elf circle"
},
{
"word": "elfdom"
},
{
"word": "elfette"
},
{
"word": "elfhood"
},
{
"word": "elfinwood"
},
{
"word": "elfish"
},
{
"word": "elf king"
},
{
"word": "Elfland"
},
{
"word": "elfless"
},
{
"word": "elflike"
},
{
"word": "elflock"
},
{
"word": "elf owl"
},
{
"word": "elf queen"
},
{
"word": "elfship"
},
{
"word": "elf-shot"
},
{
"word": "half-elf"
},
{
"word": "light elf"
},
{
"word": "machine elf"
},
{
"word": "were-elf"
},
{
"word": "wood elf"
},
{
"word": "wood-elf"
}
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{
"args": {
"1": "ar",
"2": "إِلْف",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Arabic: إِلْف (ʔilf)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Arabic: إِلْف (ʔilf)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "elf",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "elfe",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: elfe",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Elf",
"3": "Elfe",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Elf, Elfe",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Elf, Elfe"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "エルフ",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "erufu"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: エルフ (erufu)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: エルフ (erufu)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "엘프",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 엘프 (elpeu)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 엘프 (elpeu)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "эльф",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: эльф (elʹf)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: эльф (elʹf)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "uk",
"2": "ельф",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Ukrainian: ельф (elʹf)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Ukrainian: ельф (elʹf)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "elf"
},
"expansion": "Middle English elf",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ielf"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "ang",
"2": "ælf"
},
"expansion": "ælf",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*albi"
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*albiz"
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂elbʰós",
"4": "",
"5": "white"
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "alf",
"3": "oaf"
},
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"name": "doublet"
}
],
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"form": "elves",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
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"form": "elfs",
"tags": [
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"plural"
]
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"2": "elfs",
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},
{
"word": "elven"
},
{
"word": "wood elf"
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{
"word": "wood-elf"
}
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"word": "elfin"
},
{
"word": "elven"
},
{
"word": "elvan"
},
{
"word": "elvish"
}
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],
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{
"ref": "1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]",
"text": "Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16",
"text": "[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131",
"text": "The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26",
"text": "The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59",
"text": "For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1",
"text": "[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]",
"text": "Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14",
"text": "These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58",
"text": "The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173",
"text": "The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1",
"text": "The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159",
"text": "Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364",
"text": "Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1",
"text": "Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1903, Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, “NAT, s.”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 619, column 2",
"text": "NAT,[…]; a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1917 November, Elizabeth Clendenning Ring, “Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry”, in The Book News Monthly, volume 36, page 109, column 1",
"text": "Elfs and fays, from their haunts in the mountains, whistle their eerie ballads above the gray roof of “Dove Cottage,” and dance their ghostly jigs on the huge hearthstone, among whose blazing logs the Fire God paints his immortal canvases, with colorings splendid beyond the dream of man.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, Hollow Earth Publishing, page 254",
"text": "Alfs [elfs]: Another name for the elfs or elves.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"Norse"
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"Elfland"
],
[
"angel",
"angel"
],
[
"nymph",
"nymph"
],
[
"fairy",
"fairy"
]
],
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],
"tags": [
"Norse"
],
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"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
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"ref": "1882 October 7, “The Life of George Cruikshank: in Two Epochs. By Blanchard Jerrold. […]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2867, London: […] John C. Francis, […], page 471, column 1",
"text": "We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281",
"text": "All the fairy tales of my childhood were conjured up before my startled imagination, and appeared to be realised in the forms which surrounded me; I saw the whole forest filled with trolls, elves, and sporting dwarfs.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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[
"race",
"race"
],
[
"mythical",
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[
"supernatural",
"supernatural"
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[
"being",
"being"
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[
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[
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"magic"
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[
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"spellcraft"
],
[
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"clashing"
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[
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"dwarves"
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},
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],
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
],
[
"álfar",
"álfar"
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],
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"(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar)."
],
"topics": [
"fantasy"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
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],
"links": [
[
"diminutive",
"diminutive"
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[
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"dwarf"
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[
"Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
"w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
],
[
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"w:Merriam-Webster"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"South African English"
],
"glosses": [
"The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)."
],
"links": [
[
"bluefish",
"bluefish"
],
[
"Pomatomus saltatrix",
"Pomatomus saltatrix#Translingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)."
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"tags": [
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}
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"ipa": "/ɛlf/"
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{
"rhymes": "-ɛlf"
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/En-us-elf.ogg",
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"english": "hostile",
"sense": "supernatural creature",
"word": "goblin"
},
{
"english": "small, mischievous",
"sense": "supernatural creature",
"word": "fairy"
},
{
"tags": [
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "精靈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīnglíng",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "精灵"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "álf"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "elver"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "valohaltia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfe"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alfus"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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],
"word": "альв"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "scn",
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"code": "scn",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "ar",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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],
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{
"code": "fr",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "farfadet"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ouva"
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"code": "ka",
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"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "ელფი"
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "de",
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],
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"code": "de",
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],
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],
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"code": "de",
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"code": "ga",
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],
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],
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"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "妖精"
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{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "エルフ"
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "엘프"
},
{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "요정"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "elf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "الف"
},
{
"code": "fa",
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"word": "وروجک"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "gd",
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"code": "sh",
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],
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
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{
"code": "es",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "sw",
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"code": "tr",
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"word": "elf"
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"word": "elf"
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{
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"word": "精灵"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "haltia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfe"
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"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"code": "hu",
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"word": "elf"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"word": "tünde"
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"code": "it",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alfus"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
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"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "эльф"
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"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
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"code": "sv",
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"Nathaniel Hawthorne",
"Oliver and Boyd",
"Paul Laurence Dunbar",
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"Sabine Baring-Gould",
"Sidney Lanier",
"Thomas Nashe",
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "neunzehn"
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "Liechtenstein: einunddreissig"
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{
"word": "Liechtenstein: zweiunddreissig"
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{
"word": "Austria: dreiunddreißigSwitzerland"
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{
"word": "Liechtenstein: dreiunddreissig"
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"word": "Austria: vierunddreißigSwitzerland"
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{
"word": "Liechtenstein: vierunddreissig"
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{
"word": "Austria: fünfunddreißigSwitzerland"
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{
"word": "Liechtenstein: fünfunddreissig"
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{
"word": "Austria: sechsunddreißigSwitzerland"
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{
"word": "Liechtenstein: sechsunddreissig"
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{
"word": "Austria: siebenunddreißigSwitzerland"
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{
"word": "Liechtenstein: siebenunddreissig"
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{
"word": "Austria: achtunddreißigSwitzerland"
},
{
"word": "Liechtenstein: achtunddreissig"
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{
"word": "Austria: neununddreißigSwitzerland"
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{
"word": "Liechtenstein: neununddreissig"
},
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"word": "vierzig"
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{
"word": "einundvierzig"
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{
"word": "zweiundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "dreiundvierzig"
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{
"word": "vierundvierzig"
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{
"word": "fünfundvierzig"
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{
"word": "sechsundvierzig"
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{
"word": "siebenundvierzig"
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{
"word": "achtundvierzig"
},
{
"word": "neunundvierzig"
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{
"word": "fünfzig"
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{
"word": "einundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "zweiundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "dreiundfünfzig"
},
{
"word": "vierundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "fünfundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "sechsundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "siebenundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "achtundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "neunundfünfzig"
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{
"word": "sechzig"
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{
"word": "einundsechzig"
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{
"word": "zweiundsechzig"
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{
"word": "dreiundsechzig"
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{
"word": "vierundsechzig"
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{
"word": "fünfundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "sechsundsechzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundsechzig"
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{
"word": "achtundsechzig"
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{
"word": "neunundsechzig"
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{
"word": "siebzig"
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{
"word": "einundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "zweiundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "dreiundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "vierundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "fünfundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "sechsundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "siebenundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "achtundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "neunundsiebzig"
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{
"word": "achtzig"
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{
"word": "einundachtzig"
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{
"word": "zweiundachtzig"
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{
"word": "dreiundachtzig"
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{
"word": "vierundachtzig"
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{
"word": "fünfundachtzig"
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{
"word": "sechsundachtzig"
},
{
"word": "siebenundachtzig"
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{
"word": "achtundachtzig"
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{
"word": "neunundachtzig"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "zweiundneunzig"
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{
"word": "dreiundneunzig"
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "1024: Quadrillion"
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{
"word": "1027: Quadrilliarde"
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"word": "1030: Quintillion"
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"word": "1033: Quintilliarde"
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"word": "1039: Sextilliarde"
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{
"word": "1042: Septillion"
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{
"word": "1045: Septilliarde"
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"word": "1048: Oktillion"
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{
"word": "1051: Oktilliarde"
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"word": "1054: Nonillion"
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{
"word": "1057: Nonilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1060: Dezillion"
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{
"word": "1063: Dezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1066: Undezillion"
},
{
"word": "1069: Undezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1072: Duodezillion"
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{
"word": "1075: Duodezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1078: Tredezillion"
},
{
"word": "1081: Tredezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "1084: Quattuordezillion"
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{
"word": "1087: Quattuordezilliarde"
},
{
"word": "10100: Googol"
},
{
"word": "10120: Vigintillion"
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{
"word": "10123: Vigintilliarde"
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"word": "elffach"
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{
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],
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"German terms with IPA pronunciation",
"German terms with audio links"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"Lombard masculine nouns",
"Lombard nouns",
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],
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},
{
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},
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[
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[
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}
],
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],
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{
"args": {
"1": "mt",
"2": "ar",
"3": "أَلْف"
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],
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"form": "elfejn",
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"dual"
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},
{
"form": "eluf",
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},
{
"form": "elufijiet",
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},
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}
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}
],
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"ipa": "/ɛlf/"
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"word": "elf"
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"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"enm:Mythological creatures"
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],
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}
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],
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"english": "She was so fair and beautiful; her elegance seemed like / An elf out of another world, or else an angel.",
"ref": "c. 1450, Wars of Alexander, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, passus 24, line 5258",
"text": "Scho was so faire & so fresche · as faucon hire semed, / An elfe out of an-othire erde · or ellis an Aungell",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "He was taken by an elf; I saw it myself. / When the clock struck twelve, he was transfigured.",
"ref": "c. 1450, “The Second Shepherds' Play”, in The Towneley Plays, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 616",
"text": "he was takyn with an elfe / I saw it myself / when the clok stroke twelf / was he forshapyn",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"elf, fairy"
],
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[
"elf",
"elf#English"
],
[
"fairy",
"fairy"
]
]
},
{
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"spirit, shade"
],
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[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"shade",
"shade"
]
]
}
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"ipa": "/ɛlf/"
}
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"word": "helfe"
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},
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"name": "cog"
}
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"2": "numeral"
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"Pennsylvania German terms derived from Old High German",
"Pennsylvania German terms derived from Rhine Franconian",
"Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Old High German",
"Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Rhine Franconian",
"Pennsylvania German terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
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"expansion": "",
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"5": "",
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"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
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{
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"1": "pl",
"2": "de",
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"diminutive"
]
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"table-tags"
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"inflection-template"
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"nominative",
"singular"
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{
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "elfa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "elfów",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "elfowi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "elfom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "elfy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "elfem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfie",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elfach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elfie",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "elfy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
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"dim": "elfik"
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"name": "pl-noun"
}
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"elf"
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{
"args": {},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml"
}
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"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Polish 1-syllable words",
"Polish animal nouns",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Polish masculine nouns",
"Polish nouns",
"Polish terms borrowed from German",
"Polish terms derived from English",
"Polish terms derived from German",
"Polish terms derived from Middle English",
"Polish terms derived from Old English",
"Polish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Polish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Polish terms derived from Tolkien's legendarium",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛlf",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛlf/1 syllable",
"pl:J. R. R. Tolkien",
"pl:Mythological creatures"
],
"glosses": [
"elf (mythical or fantasy creature)"
],
"links": [
[
"elf",
"elf#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"animal-not-person",
"masculine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɛlf/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlf"
}
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
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"name": "glossary"
},
{
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"2": "fr",
"3": "elfe",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
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"name": "bor"
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{
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"1": "ro",
"2": "fr",
"3": "elfe"
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{
"form": "elfi",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
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"tags": [
"table-tags"
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"tags": [
"inflection-template"
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{
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"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
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{
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"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
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{
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
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{
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
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"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
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{
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"singular",
"vocative"
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"plural",
"vocative"
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"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
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"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
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[
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]
],
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"masculine"
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}
],
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"tags": [
"table-tags"
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"inflection-template"
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{
"form": "elf",
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"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "elfvar",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
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"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
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{
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"tags": [
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"genitive",
"singular"
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
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"genitive",
"plural"
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"head": "",
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"3": "elfvar",
"4": "elfvarna",
"5": "elfs",
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"7": "elfvars",
"8": "elfvarnas",
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}
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{
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{
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}
],
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"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish obsolete forms"
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[
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"common-gender",
"obsolete"
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}
],
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"tags": [
"plural"
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"3": "plural",
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"Yola nouns",
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"Yola terms inherited from Old English",
"Yola terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Yola terms with IPA pronunciation"
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[
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"path": [
"elf"
],
"section": "Lombard",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "elf",
"trace": ""
}
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