See wau on Wiktionary
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"glosses": [
"a Mother Hubbard dress"
],
"links": [
[
"Mother Hubbard dress",
"Mother Hubbard dress"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[wɑːu]",
"note": "phonetic"
},
{
"ipa": "[wɑ wu]",
"note": "phonetic"
},
{
"ipa": "/wæɰwiw/",
"note": "phonemic"
}
],
"word": "wau"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "wau",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "wawe"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of wawe"
],
"links": [
[
"wawe",
"wawe#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "wau"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "he",
"3": "וו"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Hebrew וו",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hebrew וו.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "waus",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "wau m (plural waus)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"wau"
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/au",
"Rhymes:Spanish/au/1 syllable",
"Spanish 1-syllable words",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from Hebrew",
"Spanish terms derived from Hebrew",
"Spanish terms spelled with W",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"the sound /w/ (labiovelar approximant) or /u̯/ (non-syllabic /u/)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwau/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈwau̯]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-au"
}
],
"word": "wau"
}
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