See masc on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *maisk, Proto-Germanic *maiską (“mixture, mash”).",
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"form": "māsċ",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
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"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċ",
"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċes",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċe",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "māsċum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
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"sort": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"head": "māsċ"
},
"expansion": "māsċ n",
"name": "ang-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "māsċ"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun-a-n"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "māsċ",
"2": "māsċ",
"3": "māsċ",
"4": "māsċ",
"5": "māsċes",
"6": "māsċa",
"7": "māsċe",
"8": "māsċum",
"num": "",
"title": "",
"type": "strong a-stem"
},
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}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"mash"
],
"links": [
[
"mash",
"mash"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɑːʃ/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "māx"
},
{
"word": "mǣsċ"
}
],
"word": "masc"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: LGBTQ",
"path": [
"masc"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "masc",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: LGBTQ",
"path": [
"masc"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "masc",
"trace": ""
}
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