See sleigh on Wiktionary
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
"path": [
"sleigh"
],
"section": "Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "sleigh",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
"path": [
"sleigh"
],
"section": "Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "sleigh",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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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