"völva" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈvɜːlvə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈvɒlvə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈvəʊlvə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈvɑlvə/ [General-American], /ˈvoʊlvə/ [General-American] Forms: völvas [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑlvə Etymology: From Old Norse vǫlva (völva in modern Icelandic). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|non|vǫlva}} Old Norse vǫlva, {{m|is|völva}} völva Head templates: {{en-noun}} völva (plural völvas)
  1. (historical) In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy. Tags: historical Translations (in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy): völva (Basque), вьолва (vjolva) [feminine] (Bulgarian), велва (velva) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vølve [common-gender] (Danish), völva [feminine] (Dutch), volva [feminine] (Dutch), vølva [feminine] (Faroese), völva [feminine] (French), völva [feminine] (Galician), Völva [feminine] (German), völva [feminine] (Icelandic), völva [feminine] (Italian), volve [feminine] (Norwegian Bokmål), volve [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), vǫlva [feminine] (Old Norse), völva [feminine] (Portuguese), вёльва (vjólʹva) (Russian), völva [feminine] (Spanish), völva [common-gender] (Swedish), vala [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-völva-en-noun-s3wpEoZo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of 'in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy': 96 4
  2. (by extension) Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-völva-en-noun-H6Hi2G2s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: volva

Noun [Icelandic]

IPA: /ˈvœlva/
Rhymes: -œlva Etymology: From Old Norse vǫlva (“prophetess”). Etymology templates: {{der|is|non|vǫlva||prophetess}} Old Norse vǫlva (“prophetess”) Head templates: {{head|is|nouns|genitive singular|völvu|||||||nominative plural|völvur|||||g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} völva f (genitive singular völvu, nominative plural völvur), {{is-noun|f|völvu|völvur}} völva f (genitive singular völvu, nominative plural völvur) Inflection templates: {{is-decl-noun-f-w1|v|ö|lv}}, {{is-decl-noun-base|f-w1|accp=völvur|accpd=völvurnar|accs=völvu|accsd=völvuna|datp=völvum|datpd=völvunum|dats=völvu|datsd=völvunni|def={{{def}}}|genp=völva|genpd=völvanna|gens=völvu|gensd=völvunnar|indef={{{indef}}}|nomp=völvur|nompd=völvurnar|noms=völva|nomsd=völvan|pl={{{pl}}}|sg={{{sg}}}}}, {{is-decl-noun-base/sgpl|f-w1|accp=völvur|accpd=völvurnar|accs=völvu|accsd=völvuna|datp=völvum|datpd=völvunum|dats=völvu|datsd=völvunni|genp=völva|genpd=völvanna|gens=völvu|gensd=völvunnar|nomp=völvur|nompd=völvurnar|noms=völva|nomsd=völvan}} Forms: völvu [genitive, singular], völvur [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], völva [indefinite, nominative, singular], völvan [definite, nominative, singular], völvur [indefinite, nominative, plural], völvurnar [definite, nominative, plural], völvu [accusative, indefinite, singular], völvuna [accusative, definite, singular], völvur [accusative, indefinite, plural], völvurnar [accusative, definite, plural], völvu [dative, indefinite, singular], völvunni [dative, definite, singular], völvum [dative, indefinite, plural], völvunum [dative, definite, plural], völvu [genitive, indefinite, singular], völvunnar [definite, genitive, singular], völva [genitive, indefinite, plural], völvanna [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. völva; prophetess Tags: feminine Synonyms: spákona Derived forms: tölva [computer, computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences]
    Sense id: en-völva-is-noun-kaEGUqnd Categories (other): Icelandic entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Portuguese]

Forms: völvas [plural]
Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} völva f (plural völvas)
  1. völva (Old Norse prophetess) Tags: feminine Synonyms: volva
    Sense id: en-völva-pt-noun-wcRf~rIC Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Swedish]

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse vǫlva. Compare the more philologically accurate (but still not naturally inherited) vala. Etymology templates: {{lbor|sv|non|vǫlva}} Learned borrowing from Old Norse vǫlva, {{m|sv|vala}} vala Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} völva c, {{sv-noun|c}} völva c Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-c-or|völv}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], völva [indefinite, nominative, singular], völvan [definite, nominative, singular], völvor [indefinite, nominative, plural], völvorna [definite, nominative, plural], völvas [genitive, indefinite, singular], völvans [definite, genitive, singular], völvors [genitive, indefinite, plural], völvornas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. völva (a prophetess) Tags: common-gender
    Sense id: en-völva-sv-noun-GnxsfUgG Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "2": "non",
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      },
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    },
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        "1": "sv",
        "2": "vala"
      },
      "expansion": "vala",
      "name": "m"
    }
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvorna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvans",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvors",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvornas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
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        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
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      "name": "head"
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    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "sv",
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    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        [
          "völva",
          "völva#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
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    "English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "English terms spelled with Ö",
    "English terms spelled with ◌̈",
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    }
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      "tags": [
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɒlvə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvəʊlvə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɑlvə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvoʊlvə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑlvə"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "volva"
    }
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      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вьолва"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "velva",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "велва"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vølve"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "volva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vølva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "volve"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "volve"
    },
    {
      "code": "non",
      "lang": "Old Norse",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vǫlva"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "word": "вёльва"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "völva"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vala"
    }
  ],
  "word": "völva"
}

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  "derived": [
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      "topics": [
        "computer",
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
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    }
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      "name": "der"
    }
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      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvu",
      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "völvuna",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "völvur",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "völvurnar",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvunni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvunum",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
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        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "10": "",
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        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
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        "4": "völvu",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "völvu",
        "3": "völvur"
      },
      "expansion": "völva f (genitive singular völvu, nominative plural völvur)",
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        "2": "ö",
        "3": "lv"
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        "Icelandic countable nouns",
        "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Icelandic feminine nouns",
        "Icelandic lemmas",
        "Icelandic nouns",
        "Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse",
        "Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Rhymes:Icelandic/œlva",
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        "völva; prophetess"
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          "völva",
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          "prophetess"
        ]
      ],
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      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/ˈvœlva/"
    },
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    }
  ],
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}

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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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        "Portuguese lemmas",
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        "völva (Old Norse prophetess)"
      ],
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          "völva#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "word": "volva"
    }
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}

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    },
    {
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      "name": "m"
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvans",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvors",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "völvornas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
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        "2": "nouns",
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        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
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      "expansion": "völva c",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "c"
      },
      "expansion": "völva c",
      "name": "sv-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "völv"
      },
      "name": "sv-infl-noun-c-or"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish common-gender nouns",
        "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swedish learned borrowings from Old Norse",
        "Swedish lemmas",
        "Swedish nouns",
        "Swedish terms borrowed from Old Norse",
        "Swedish terms derived from Old Norse"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "völva (a prophetess)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "völva",
          "völva#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "völva"
}
{
  "called_from": "inflection/2466",
  "msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Icelandic]; cleaned text: f-w1",
  "path": [
    "völva"
  ],
  "section": "Icelandic",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "völva",
  "trace": ""
}

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