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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "akubagengen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "naki wan gengen"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "kg",
"3": "ngéngéngéé",
"4": "",
"5": "ting-a-ling; ringing"
},
"expansion": "Kongo ngéngéngéé (“ting-a-ling; ringing”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*-gengede",
"t": "bell"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *-gengede (“bell”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably from Kongo ngéngéngéé (“ting-a-ling; ringing”), from Proto-Bantu *-gengede (“bell”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dyendyen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "gengen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"lang_code": "srn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Sranan Tongo entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "please add this translation if you can / Mother Aisa is ringing her bell / The Papa-spirit woman is shaking her rattle",
"ref": "1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 94:",
"text": "Grɛ̨nya na goro, / Ma Aisa ɛ loi ɛ̨ŋg dyɛ̨ndyɛ̨n, / Papa-umą ɛ̨ŋ seki ɛ̨ŋ saka.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "So, although his tongue was filed / the moment he raised his voice / all people got startled / by how he made a noise like a bell",
"ref": "1953 July 18, Albert Helman, “Fos'tem-tori [Olden days story]”, in Het Nieuws, Paramaribo: A.J. Morpurgo, page 6:",
"text": "So, a–was' en tongo feerie / no–mo di a hopo stem, / alla liebi–soema skreki / fa a bari lek' djendjen (.)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Girl, I didn't hear the bell!",
"ref": "1976, Edgar Cairo, Kollektieve schuld, of wel Famir'man-sani. [Collective guilt, or family members' things.], Baarns/The Hague/Brussels: Het Wereldvenster/NOVIB/NCOS, →ISBN, page 163:",
"text": "Wenk'o, mi no jere gengen!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bell"
],
"id": "en-gengen-srn-noun-9oN0DN7W",
"links": [
[
"bell",
"bell"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Sranan Tongo entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"telephone"
],
"id": "en-gengen-srn-noun-czlyUVmJ",
"links": [
[
"telephone",
"telephone"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "teilefown"
},
{
"word": "konkrutitei"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒend͡ʒeŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɟenɟen/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒɪ̞̃nd͡ʒɪ̞ŋ]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒẽ̝nd͡ʒe̝ŋ]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"nl:Pieter Muysken"
],
"word": "gengen"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "msn",
"2": "gen"
},
"expansion": "Reduplication of gen",
"name": "reduplication"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Reduplication of gen.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "msn",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "gengen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Vurës",
"lang_code": "msn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "14 14 43 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 14 43 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "84 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Vurës entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "90 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Vurës reduplications",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"food (whether cooked or uncooked)"
],
"id": "en-gengen-msn-noun-KJq~Fmli",
"links": [
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"cook",
"cook#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "staple",
"raw_glosses": [
"(staple) food (whether cooked or uncooked)"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"dish, meal; prepared food"
],
"id": "en-gengen-msn-noun-TCTZxrxe",
"links": [
[
"dish",
"dish"
],
[
"meal",
"meal"
],
[
"food",
"food"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɣɛnˈɣɛn/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Australian National University Press"
],
"word": "gengen"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Sranan Tongo entries with incorrect language header",
"Sranan Tongo lemmas",
"Sranan Tongo nouns",
"Sranan Tongo terms derived from Kongo",
"Sranan Tongo terms derived from Proto-Bantu",
"Sranan Tongo terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "akubagengen"
},
{
"word": "naki wan gengen"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "kg",
"3": "ngéngéngéé",
"4": "",
"5": "ting-a-ling; ringing"
},
"expansion": "Kongo ngéngéngéé (“ting-a-ling; ringing”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*-gengede",
"t": "bell"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *-gengede (“bell”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably from Kongo ngéngéngéé (“ting-a-ling; ringing”), from Proto-Bantu *-gengede (“bell”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dyendyen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "gengen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"lang_code": "srn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Requests for translations into Sranan Tongo",
"Sranan Tongo terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "please add this translation if you can / Mother Aisa is ringing her bell / The Papa-spirit woman is shaking her rattle",
"ref": "1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 94:",
"text": "Grɛ̨nya na goro, / Ma Aisa ɛ loi ɛ̨ŋg dyɛ̨ndyɛ̨n, / Papa-umą ɛ̨ŋ seki ɛ̨ŋ saka.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "So, although his tongue was filed / the moment he raised his voice / all people got startled / by how he made a noise like a bell",
"ref": "1953 July 18, Albert Helman, “Fos'tem-tori [Olden days story]”, in Het Nieuws, Paramaribo: A.J. Morpurgo, page 6:",
"text": "So, a–was' en tongo feerie / no–mo di a hopo stem, / alla liebi–soema skreki / fa a bari lek' djendjen (.)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Girl, I didn't hear the bell!",
"ref": "1976, Edgar Cairo, Kollektieve schuld, of wel Famir'man-sani. [Collective guilt, or family members' things.], Baarns/The Hague/Brussels: Het Wereldvenster/NOVIB/NCOS, →ISBN, page 163:",
"text": "Wenk'o, mi no jere gengen!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bell"
],
"links": [
[
"bell",
"bell"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"telephone"
],
"links": [
[
"telephone",
"telephone"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "teilefown"
},
{
"word": "konkrutitei"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒend͡ʒeŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɟenɟen/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒɪ̞̃nd͡ʒɪ̞ŋ]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒẽ̝nd͡ʒe̝ŋ]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"nl:Pieter Muysken"
],
"word": "gengen"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Vurës entries with incorrect language header",
"Vurës lemmas",
"Vurës nouns",
"Vurës reduplications"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "msn",
"2": "gen"
},
"expansion": "Reduplication of gen",
"name": "reduplication"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Reduplication of gen.",
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"args": {
"1": "msn",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "gengen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Vurës",
"lang_code": "msn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"food (whether cooked or uncooked)"
],
"links": [
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"cook",
"cook#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "staple",
"raw_glosses": [
"(staple) food (whether cooked or uncooked)"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"dish, meal; prepared food"
],
"links": [
[
"dish",
"dish"
],
[
"meal",
"meal"
],
[
"food",
"food"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɣɛnˈɣɛn/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Australian National University Press"
],
"word": "gengen"
}
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