See thei on Wiktionary
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{
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "cy-mut",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "tei",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "dei",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"soft"
]
},
{
"form": "nhei",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "thei",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "mutated noun"
},
"expansion": "thei",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tei"
},
"name": "cy-mut"
}
],
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Welsh aspirate-mutation forms",
"Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
"Welsh mutated nouns",
"Welsh non-lemma forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "tei"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Aspirate mutation of tei."
],
"links": [
[
"tei",
"tei#Welsh"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"mutation-aspirate"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈθei̯/"
}
],
"word": "thei"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: thei/Welsh 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"thei"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "thei",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: thei/Welsh 'nasal' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"thei"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "thei",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: thei/Welsh 'aspirate' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"thei"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "thei",
"trace": ""
}
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