See merci on Wiktionary
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"word": "mille mercis"
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"expansion": "→ Armenian: մերսի (mersi, “thanks (colloquial)”)",
"name": "desc"
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"2": "мерси́",
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"expansion": "→ Bulgarian: мерси́ (mersí, “thanks (colloquial)”)",
"name": "desc"
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"bor": "1"
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"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
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"alts": "1"
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"name": "desc"
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"ref": "1995, Peter Arnold, The Book of Card Games, →ISBN, page 15:",
"text": "Few games are won without the merci. In the final deal a King above a card of the same suit automatically blocks the game, and the merci should be used to free such a card.",
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}
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[
"card",
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[
"game",
"game"
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}
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"ipa": "/mɛːˈsiː/"
}
],
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"French terms derived from Middle French",
"French terms derived from Old French",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"French uncountable nouns",
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"word": "à la merci de"
},
{
"word": "Dieu merci"
},
{
"word": "merci beaucoup"
},
{
"word": "merci mille fois"
},
{
"word": "mille mercis"
},
{
"word": "sans merci"
},
{
"word": "taillable et corvéable à merci"
}
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"2": "merci",
"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"depth": 1,
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"args": {
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"2": "مرسي",
"bor": "1",
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"name": "desc"
}
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
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"2": "մերսի",
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"gloss": "thanks (colloquial)"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "bg",
"2": "мерси́",
"bor": "1",
"gloss": "thanks (colloquial)"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Bulgarian: мерси́ (mersí, “thanks (colloquial)”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "merci",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "nl",
"2": "merci",
"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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"depth": 1,
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"1": "de",
"2": "merci",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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"2": "mèsi",
"alts": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "ja",
"2": "メルシー",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "merushī"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: メルシー (merushī)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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"depth": 1,
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"2": "메르시",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 메르시 (mereusi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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"2": "mèsi",
"alts": "1"
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"name": "desc"
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "lb",
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"bor": "1"
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}
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"depth": 1,
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"1": "ota",
"2": "մէրսի",
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}
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},
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"depth": 1,
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"2": "مرسی",
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"tr": "mersi"
},
"expansion": "→ Persian: مرسی (mersi, “thanks (colloquial)”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
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"1": "ro",
"2": "mersi",
"bor": "1"
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}
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"word": "danke"
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{
"word": "danke schön"
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{
"word": "ich danke schön"
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],
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"1": "enm",
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"english": "If you throw yourselves on his mercy\nNone (apart from the count who is here)\nof you deserve death;\nyou will lose neither life nor limb",
"ref": "c. 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:",
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"english": "this you know, my friend, that all those who are looking for you\nupon your command will have mercy",
"ref": "13th century, Herman de Valenciennes, Assomption Nostre Dame, page 7, column 2, lines 16–17:",
"text": "ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt\na tun commandement merci auvrunt",
"type": "quote"
}
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"mercy; clemency"
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"ipa": "/mɛɾˈsi/",
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{
"ipa": "/mɛɾˈʃi/",
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"tags": [
"Northern"
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}
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},
{
"word": "merchit"
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{
"tags": [
"Northern"
],
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}
],
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}
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.