See jy on Wiktionary
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"The name of the Latin-script letter J/j."
],
"links": [
[
"J",
"J#English"
],
[
"j",
"j#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic or dialectal, Scotland) The name of the Latin-script letter J/j."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "jay"
}
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒaɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
}
],
"word": "jy"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "jy",
"name": "ilo-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Ilocano",
"lang_code": "ilo",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "idiay"
}
],
"categories": [
"Ilocano abbreviations",
"Ilocano adverbs",
"Ilocano entries with incorrect language header",
"Ilocano lemmas",
"Ilocano terms spelled with J",
"Ilocano terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Ilocano terms without Kur-itan script",
"Ilocano text messaging slang",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"abbreviation of idiay"
],
"links": [
[
"text messaging",
"text messaging"
],
[
"idiay",
"idiay#Ilocano"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(text messaging) abbreviation of idiay"
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"abbreviation",
"alt-of"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒaj/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒaɪ̯]"
}
],
"word": "jy"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: object jou",
"path": [
"jy"
],
"section": "Afrikaans",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "jy",
"trace": ""
}
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