See saltire on Wiktionary
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"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of psaltire"
],
"links": [
[
"psaltire",
"psaltire#Romanian"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "saltire"
}
Download raw JSONL data for saltire meaning in All languages combined (7.1kB)
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"saltire"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "saltire",
"trace": ""
}
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