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{
"antonyms": [
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “eager”",
"word": "loath"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “eager”",
"word": "averse"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “eager”",
"word": "disinclined"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “eager”",
"word": "reluctant"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “eager”",
"word": "unwilling"
}
],
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},
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},
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},
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},
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*fagan"
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"4": "",
"5": "glad"
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"3": "*peḱ-",
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},
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"name": "der"
},
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"t": "glad, joyful"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍆𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽",
"t": "to rejoice"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 (faginōn, “to rejoice”)",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English fain, from Old English fægen, from Proto-West Germanic *fagan, from Proto-Germanic *faganaz (“glad”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to make pretty, please oneself”); akin to Old Norse feginn (“glad, joyful”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 (faginōn, “to rejoice”), Old Norse fagna (“to rejoice”).",
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{
"form": "more fain",
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"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most fain",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"Well-pleased, glad."
],
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"links": [
[
"glad",
"glad"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "70 16 12 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ohoten",
"sense": "glad",
"word": "охотен"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 16 12 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sklonen",
"sense": "glad",
"word": "склонен"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 16 12 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "glad",
"word": "gevallig"
}
]
},
{
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{
"ref": "1883, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Death-Parting, line 11, Poems",
"text": "O love, of my death my life is fain,",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Satisfied, contented."
],
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"links": [
[
"Satisfied",
"satisfied"
],
[
"contented",
"contented"
]
],
"tags": [
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],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "23 72 3 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dovolen",
"sense": "satisfied",
"word": "доволен"
},
{
"_dis1": "23 72 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "satisfied",
"word": "spokojený"
},
{
"_dis1": "23 72 3 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "satisfied",
"word": "tevreden"
},
{
"_dis1": "23 72 3 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "satisfied",
"word": "elégedett"
}
]
},
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Eager, willing or inclined to."
],
"id": "en-fain-en-adj-RkDv3cM0",
"links": [
[
"Eager",
"eager"
],
[
"willing",
"willing"
],
[
"inclined",
"inclined"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "7 6 86 1",
"sense": "eager",
"word": "eager"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 6 86 1",
"sense": "eager",
"word": "keen"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 6 86 1",
"sense": "eager",
"word": "raring"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 8 67 7",
"sense": "ready, willing",
"word": "lief"
}
],
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"archaic"
]
},
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"glosses": [
"Obliged or compelled to."
],
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"Obliged",
"obliged"
],
[
"compelled",
"compelled"
]
],
"tags": [
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]
}
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},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪn"
},
{
"homophone": "feign"
},
{
"homophone": "fane"
},
{
"homophone": "foehn"
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},
{
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},
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},
{
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"2": "feyn"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English fain, fayn, feyn, from the adjective (see above).",
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{
"form": "fainer",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "fainest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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{
"ref": "1633, John Donne, Holly Sonnets, section XIV",
"roman": "But am betroth’d unto your enemy",
"text": "Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1891, George Du Maurier, Peter Ibbetson",
"text": "[…] and fain would I inhale it in all its pristine fulness and vigour.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1923, Anthony Ludovici, “The Positive Man and the Positive Woman”, in Woman; A Vindication, London: Constable",
"text": "As a matter of fact, although Woman means everything to Man’s sexuality, and is the embodiment of all that his reproductive instinct can desire, even when it is at its keenest, Man means very little to Woman. He is, after all, no more than the sparking-plug that sets an elaborate process going, and the brief moment in which his share in her business is accomplished, and the incomplete pleasure it affords her, are ridiculously insignificant when compared with the importance he himself would fain attach to them.",
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"With joy; gladly."
],
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[
"joy",
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],
[
"gladly",
"gladly"
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],
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"archaic"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ohotno",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "охотно"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "graag"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "met plezier"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "volontiers"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "gern"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rádostno",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "ра́достно"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oxótno",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "охо́тно"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "s udovólʹstvijem",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "с удово́льствием"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "gladly",
"word": "gärna"
}
]
},
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"By will or choice."
],
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[
"will",
"will"
],
[
"choice",
"choice"
]
],
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"archaic"
]
}
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},
{
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"To be delighted or glad; to rejoice."
],
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],
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"(archaic) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice."
],
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"_dis1": "89 6 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "be delighted",
"word": "zich verheugen"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 6 5",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "be delighted",
"word": "gleðjast"
},
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"_dis1": "89 6 5",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kokoroyoku",
"sense": "be delighted",
"word": "快く"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 4 3",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "rejoice",
"word": "fagna"
},
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"_dis1": "93 4 3",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rejoice",
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"To gladden."
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],
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"(archaic) To gladden."
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"_dis1": "8 90 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "gladden",
"word": "verheugen"
},
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"_dis1": "8 90 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "gladden",
"word": "blij maken"
},
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"_dis1": "8 90 2",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "gladden",
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}
]
},
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"Forteana",
"Culture",
"Pseudoscience",
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"to worship, to celebrate, to offer an oblation which is not sacrificial blót."
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[
"offer",
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"blót"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(Germanic paganism) to worship, to celebrate, to offer an oblation which is not sacrificial blót."
],
"tags": [
"Germanic"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"paganism",
"religion"
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],
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"willing, eager"
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"eager"
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[
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[
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"etymology_text": "From Latin famēs.",
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"form": "fain oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "fain",
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"nominative",
"singular"
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}
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},
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}
],
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"word": "famine"
}
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"Old French lemmas",
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"Old French terms inherited from Latin",
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],
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],
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[
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"hunger"
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]
}
],
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{
"word": "faim"
}
],
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}
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"4": "",
"5": "",
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"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
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"plural"
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{
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"table-tags"
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{
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"masculine",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
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"accusative",
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"nominative",
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{
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"indefinite",
"masculine",
"nominative",
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{
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"accusative",
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"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
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"definite",
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"neuter",
"nominative",
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"definite",
"feminine",
"nominative",
"singular"
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"accusative",
"definite",
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
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"definite",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
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"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
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"masculine",
"plural"
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"form": "faine",
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"feminine",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"plural"
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"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
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"singular"
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"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
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"dative",
"definite",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
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"args": {
"1": "4"
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"5": "fainul",
"6": "faina",
"7": "fainii",
"8": "fainele",
"9": "fainului"
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}
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"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from German",
"Romanian terms derived from German",
"Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Transylvanian Romanian"
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],
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],
[
"fine",
"fine"
]
],
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],
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"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/fajn/"
}
],
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}
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Puter"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Vallander"
],
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}
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"2": "la",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "faenum"
},
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"name": "m"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "rm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "m"
},
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"name": "head"
}
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"tags": [
"Rumantsch-Grischun",
"Sutsilvan"
],
"word": "fanar"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
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"Romansch entries with incorrect language header",
"Romansch lemmas",
"Romansch masculine nouns",
"Romansch nouns",
"Romansch terms derived from Latin",
"Romansch terms inherited from Latin",
"Rumantsch Grischun",
"Vallader Romansch"
],
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],
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"masculine"
]
}
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Surmiran",
"Sutsilvan"
],
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}
],
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}
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"args": {
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"2": "noun"
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"expansion": "fain",
"name": "head"
}
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{
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"Siar-Lak lemmas",
"Siar-Lak nouns",
"Siar-Lak terms in nonstandard scripts"
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[
"woman",
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]
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"path": [
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"title": "fain",
"trace": ""
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
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"fain"
],
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