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"args": {
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}
],
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},
{
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{
"args": {
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},
"expansion": "English: weir",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: weir"
}
],
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{
"form": "weras",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
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"4": "weras",
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"6": "",
"g": "m",
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"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "weras"
},
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}
],
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{
"glosses": [
"weir"
],
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[
"weir",
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]
],
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"masculine"
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}
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{
"ipa": "/wer/"
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],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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}
],
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
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},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
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"3": "*weraz"
},
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},
{
"args": {
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},
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},
{
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},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
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},
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}
],
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{
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"5": "",
"6": "",
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"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
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],
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{
"derived": [
{
"word": "weralt"
},
{
"word": "werwulf"
}
],
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"man"
],
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[
"man",
"man"
]
],
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"masculine"
]
}
],
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{
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}
],
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}
{
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
"args": {
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{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*warją"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *warją",
"name": "inh"
}
],
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{
"args": {
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"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
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},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "n"
},
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}
],
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{
"glosses": [
"dam, weir"
],
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[
"dam",
"dam"
],
[
"weir",
"weir"
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],
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}
],
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],
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}
{
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{
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{
"args": {
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},
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"name": "desctree"
}
],
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}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "gmw-pro",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hwaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hwaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "hverr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse hverr",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "glossary",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "pronouns"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"pos": "pron",
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{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 4 17 1 1 2 8 1 2 1 4 6 15 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 10 1 1",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 12 75",
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"name": "Old High German entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 14 72",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old High German pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"english": "Who was he?",
"text": "Wer war er?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Hildebrand spoke, Heribrand's son—he was a hoarier man, wiser of life;—he posed his question with few words, who his [Hadubrand's] father might be […]",
"ref": "Hildebrandslied, ll. 7-9",
"text": "hıltıbrant gımahalta herıbranteſ ſunu her uuaſ heroro man\nferaheſ frotoro • her fragen gıſtuont\nfohem uuortum • ƿer ſin fater ƿarı[…]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"who"
],
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"links": [
[
"who",
"who"
]
],
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"(interrogative) who"
],
"related": [
{
"english": "what",
"word": "waz"
}
],
"tags": [
"interrogative"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "Manuscript form",
"word": "ƿer"
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "werold"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "werwulf"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "warwulf"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "werld"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gmw-pro",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*weraz"
},
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},
{
"args": {
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{
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},
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{
"args": {
"1": "non",
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},
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}
],
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
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"table-tags"
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},
{
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"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "a-stem",
"source": "declension",
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"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "weros",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "weros",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "weres",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "were",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "noun",
"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "wer m",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "wer m",
"name": "osx-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "wer"
},
"name": "osx-decl-noun-a-m"
}
],
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"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"man"
],
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"links": [
[
"man",
"man"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"hero"
],
"id": "en-wer-osx-noun-rmx50Q8f",
"links": [
[
"hero",
"hero"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pdc",
"2": "pronoun"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "pdc",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 18 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pennsylvania German entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pennsylvania German pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"who"
],
"id": "en-wer-pdc-pron-btAzcUC9",
"links": [
[
"who",
"who"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/væːɐ/"
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "slu",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Selaru",
"lang_code": "slu",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 18 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Selaru entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Selaru terms in nonstandard scripts",
"parents": [
"Terms in nonstandard scripts",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"water"
],
"id": "en-wer-slu-noun-D0FoSQ44",
"links": [
[
"water",
"water"
]
]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "txb",
"2": "noun",
"g": "?",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "wer ?",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "?"
},
"expansion": "wer ?",
"name": "txb-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"lang_code": "txb",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 18 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Tocharian B entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"hatred, enmity"
],
"id": "en-wer-txb-noun-HTnx6mo4",
"links": [
[
"hatred",
"hatred"
],
[
"enmity",
"enmity"
]
]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "wearing",
"word": "were"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 18 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of were (“wearing”)"
],
"id": "en-wer-yol-noun-UgPShx72",
"links": [
[
"were",
"were#Yola"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Old English: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old English: wer"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Middle English: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: wer"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "English: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: wer"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Frisian: wer"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Saxon: wer"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "wēre"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German: wēre",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "*wer"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch: *wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Dutch: *wer"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "weer"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch: weer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Dutch: weer"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Old High German: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old High German: wer"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "wer",
"3": "were"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German: wer, were",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle High German: wer, were"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Wer"
},
"expansion": "German: Wer",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "archaic or obsolete"
},
"expansion": "(archaic or obsolete)",
"name": "gl"
}
],
"text": "German: Wer (archaic or obsolete)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*weraz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *weraz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *weraz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "gmw-infl-noun-a",
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"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "a-stem",
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"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "Masculine a-stem",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "werōs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
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}
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"name": "desc"
}
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"name": "inh"
}
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"dam"
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"weir"
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"name": "desctree"
}
],
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "goh",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hwaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hwaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "hverr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse hverr",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
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"form": "glossary",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "declension",
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"2": "pronouns"
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"english": "what",
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}
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"text": "Wer war er?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Hildebrand spoke, Heribrand's son—he was a hoarier man, wiser of life;—he posed his question with few words, who his [Hadubrand's] father might be […]",
"ref": "Hildebrandslied, ll. 7-9",
"text": "hıltıbrant gımahalta herıbranteſ ſunu her uuaſ heroro man\nferaheſ frotoro • her fragen gıſtuont\nfohem uuortum • ƿer ſin fater ƿarı[…]",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"who"
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[
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"who"
]
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"(interrogative) who"
],
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"interrogative"
]
}
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}
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}
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"Old Saxon lemmas",
"Old Saxon masculine nouns",
"Old Saxon nouns",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"Pages with entries"
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"word": "werold"
},
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"word": "werwulf"
}
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},
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"text": "werld"
}
],
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"3": "*wer"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*weraz"
},
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"name": "inh"
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"table-tags"
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]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
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{
"form": "wer",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "weros",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "weros",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "weres",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "were",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
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],
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"2": "noun",
"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "wer m",
"name": "osx-noun"
}
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"1": "wer"
},
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"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"man"
],
"links": [
[
"man",
"man"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"hero"
],
"links": [
[
"hero",
"hero"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
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"args": {
"1": "pdc",
"2": "pronoun"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Pennsylvania German",
"lang_code": "pdc",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 18 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pennsylvania German entries with incorrect language header",
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"Pennsylvania German pronouns"
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"glosses": [
"who"
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"links": [
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"who",
"who"
]
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/væːɐ/"
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
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{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Old English: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old English: wer"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Middle English: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: wer"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "English: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: wer"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian: wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Frisian: wer"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "osx",
"2": "wer"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 2,
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"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "wēre"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German: wēre",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Low German: wēre"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "*wer"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch: *wer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Dutch: *wer"
},
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "weer"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch: weer",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Dutch: weer"
},
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "wer"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old High German: wer"
},
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "wer",
"3": "were"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German: wer, were",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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"1": "de",
"2": "Wer"
},
"expansion": "German: Wer",
"name": "desc"
},
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},
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"name": "gl"
}
],
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}
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*weraz"
},
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"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *weraz.",
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
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{
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"tags": [
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{
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"source": "inflection",
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"class"
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},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "werōs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wer",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werā",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "weras",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "werē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "weru",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "werum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
}
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"2": "noun",
"g": "m"
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"word": "mann"
}
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},
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],
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"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wer",
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"Proto-West Germanic nouns",
"Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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"man"
],
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[
"man",
"man"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gumō"
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
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"args": {
"1": "slu",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Selaru",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 18 entries",
"Pages with entries",
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"Selaru nouns",
"Selaru terms in nonstandard scripts"
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"glosses": [
"water"
],
"links": [
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"water",
"water"
]
]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
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"2": "noun",
"g": "?",
"head": ""
},
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"name": "head"
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{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "?"
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"categories": [
"Pages with 18 entries",
"Pages with entries",
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"Tocharian B lemmas",
"Tocharian B nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"hatred, enmity"
],
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[
"hatred",
"hatred"
],
[
"enmity",
"enmity"
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]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
{
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"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
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{
"extra": "wearing",
"word": "were"
}
],
"categories": [
"Pages with 18 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"Yola lemmas",
"Yola nouns"
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"glosses": [
"Alternative form of were (“wearing”)"
],
"links": [
[
"were",
"were#Yola"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "wer"
}
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"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "wer",
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}
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"path": [
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"section": "Middle High German",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "wer",
"trace": "started on line 3, detected on line 20"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/328",
"msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
"path": [
"wer"
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"section": "Old High German",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "wer",
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}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.