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},
{
"homophone": "lais"
},
{
"homophone": "lait"
},
{
"homophone": "laits (dated)"
},
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"text": "Audio"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-legs.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-legs.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-legs.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
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],
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}
],
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}
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},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "is",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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"Icelandic non-lemma forms",
"Icelandic noun forms"
],
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{
"word": "leg"
}
],
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],
"links": [
[
"leg",
"leg#Icelandic"
]
],
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "legs"
}
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"Swedish non-lemma forms",
"Swedish noun forms"
],
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}
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"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
"word": "leg"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite genitive plural of leg"
],
"links": [
[
"leg",
"leg#Swedish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
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{
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}
],
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],
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[
"leg",
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]
],
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"indefinite",
"singular"
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}
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}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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