See fers on Wiktionary
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"sentence, title"
],
"links": [
[
"sentence",
"sentence"
],
[
"title",
"title"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fers/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ferˠs]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "færs"
},
{
"word": "fyrs"
},
{
"word": "uers"
}
],
"word": "fers"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "la",
"3": "versus"
},
"expansion": "Latin versus",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin versus.",
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{
"form": "ferso",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "fersa",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "fersai",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "fersae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fersai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "fersu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "fersu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ferso",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fersa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ferso",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "fersa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "fersae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fersaib",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "fersaib",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "ḟers",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "fers",
"source": "mutation"
}
],
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"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "nominative plural",
"14": "fersai",
"15": "",
"16": "{{{pl2}}}",
"17": "",
"18": "{{{pl3}}}",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "genitive",
"6": "ferso",
"7": "or",
"8": "fersa",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "fers m (genitive ferso or fersa, nominative plural fersai)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "ferso",
"3": "fersai",
"gen2": "fersa"
},
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"name": "sga-noun"
}
],
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{
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"1": "fers",
"g": "m",
"nom_pl2": "fersai"
},
"name": "sga-decl-u"
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{
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"acc_du": "fers+L",
"acc_du2": "",
"acc_du3": "",
"acc_pl": "fersu",
"acc_pl2": "",
"acc_pl3": "",
"acc_sg": "fers+N",
"acc_sg2": "",
"acc_sg3": "",
"class": "u-m",
"dat_du": "fersaib",
"dat_du2": "",
"dat_du3": "",
"dat_pl": "fersaib",
"dat_pl2": "",
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"dat_sg2": "",
"dat_sg3": "",
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"gen_du4": "",
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"gen_pl2": "",
"gen_pl3": "",
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"gen_sg3": "",
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"nom_du2": "",
"nom_du3": "",
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"voc_du2": "",
"voc_du3": "",
"voc_pl": "fersu",
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"voc_sg": "fers",
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},
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}
],
"lang": "Old Irish",
"lang_code": "sga",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Irish lemmas",
"Old Irish masculine nouns",
"Old Irish masculine u-stem nouns",
"Old Irish nouns",
"Old Irish terms borrowed from Latin",
"Old Irish terms derived from Latin",
"Old Irish terms with quotations",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "This is the verse that Jerome sang as he went into Bethlehem, namely, haec requies and so on; “it will indeed be true,” he says: “it is here that I will be in pilgrimage until the Day of Judgement.”",
"text": "Is he in fers-[s]o ro·gab Ch[i]rine oc techt i mBethil .i. haec requies rl. \"Bid fír æm,\" olsesom, \"is sunt bia-sa in eilithri co llae messa.\"",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "However, we do not see that verse in the Psalter.",
"text": "Noch ní accam isint saltair in fers n-ísin.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"verse"
],
"links": [
[
"verse",
"verse"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "fers"
}
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"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Old Irish]; cleaned text: Initial mutations of a following adjective: *ᴴ = triggers aspiration *ᴸ = triggers lenition *ᴺ = triggers nasalization",
"path": [
"fers"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fers",
"trace": ""
}
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"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: fers/Old Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
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"fers"
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fers",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
"path": [
"fers"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fers",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
"path": [
"fers"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fers",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/1826",
"msg": "inflection table: empty tags for fers",
"path": [
"fers"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fers",
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}
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