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"word": "thither"
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"word": "whence"
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"Interrogative senses.",
"To what place; where."
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"ref": "2018 February 9, Tommie Gorman, “Whither now the DUP?”, in Raidió Teilifís Éireann, archived from the original on 2022-07-01",
"text": "Whither now the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party]? In Westminster, Theresa May's minority government continues to rely on the support of ten DUP members for its very survival. But last week may well have seen the consequences as well as the high point of thumbscrew politics.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"Interrogative senses.",
"To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far."
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"Interrogative senses.",
"(figurative, also humorous) To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far."
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc. — see also where",
"word": "minne"
}
]
},
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"Relative senses.",
"To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which."
],
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"Appendix:Glossary#relative"
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[
"denoting",
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"_dis1": "11 4 75 4 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to which place; (after a noun denoting a place) to which",
"word": "jonne"
}
]
},
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"glosses": [
"Relative senses.",
"To the place in or to which."
],
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"_dis1": "5 1 3 83 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to the place in or to which",
"word": "jonne"
}
]
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"Relative senses.",
"In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever."
],
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"wherever",
"wherever#Adverb"
]
],
"qualifier": "generally",
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"Relative senses.",
"(generally) In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever."
],
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{
"word": "whithersoever"
}
],
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"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪðə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪðəɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɪðə/",
"note": "in accents without the wine-whine merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɪðəɹ/",
"note": "in accents without the wine-whine merger"
},
{
"homophone": "wither (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪðə(ɹ)"
},
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"tags": [
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"enpr": "wĭ''th''ʹər"
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔilā ʔayna",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "إِلَى أَيْنَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kudý",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "куды́"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nakǎdé",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "накъде́"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "哪裡"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǎlǐ",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "哪里"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "哪兒<!"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"alt": "nǎr-->",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "哪儿<!"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kam"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvorhen"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "waarheen"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "werwaarts"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kien"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvagar"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "minne"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "kunne"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "où"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "wohin"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "ƕadrē",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "𐍈𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌴"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "ƕaþ",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "𐍈𐌰𐌸"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hêi",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "ᾗ"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hoî",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "οἷ"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "poî",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "ποῖ"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "leán",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "לְאָן"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hova"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hová"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "merrefelé"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvert"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kuhu"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kunne"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "mihe"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "a dove"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "doko e",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "どこへ"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eodi",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "어디"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eodie",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "어디에"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "rop",
"lang": "Kriol",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "wijei"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "quō"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kur"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kurp"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kade",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "каде"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nakade",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "накаде"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvor"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvor hen"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kor"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kvar"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"roman": "jamo",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"relative"
],
"word": "ꙗмѡ"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"roman": "kamo",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"interrogative"
],
"word": "камѡ"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hwæder"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "dokąd"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "aonde"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "încotro"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kudá",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "куда́"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ка̏мо"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ку̀да"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "kȁmo"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "kùda"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kam"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kam"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"interrogative"
],
"word": "adónde"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"tags": [
"relative"
],
"word": "adonde"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "vart"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "varthän"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "vartill"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "nereye"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kudý",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "куди́"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "đâu"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 21 31 4 10",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
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"word": "إِلَى أَيْنَ"
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "куды́"
},
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "накъде́"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "哪裡"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǎlǐ",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "哪里"
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"word": "哪兒<!"
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "哪儿<!"
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kam"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvorhen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "waarheen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "werwaarts"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kien"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvagar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "minne"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "où"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "wohin"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "ƕadrē",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "𐍈𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌴"
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"code": "got",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "𐍈𐌰𐌸"
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{
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "ᾗ"
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{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "οἷ"
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{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "ποῖ"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "leán",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "לְאָן"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hova"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hová"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "merrefelé"
},
{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvert"
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{
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
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"word": "mihe"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "a dove"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "どこへ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eodi",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "어디"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eodie",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "어디에"
},
{
"code": "rop",
"lang": "Kriol",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "wijei"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "quō"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kur"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kurp"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kade",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "каде"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nakade",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "накаде"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvor"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hvor hen"
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{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kor"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kvar"
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{
"code": "cu",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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"word": "ꙗмѡ"
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"code": "cu",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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{
"code": "ang",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "hwæder"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "dokąd"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "aonde"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kudá",
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"word": "куда́"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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{
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"code": "sh",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kam"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kam"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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{
"code": "es",
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "vart"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "varthän"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "vartill"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "nereye"
},
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"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "đâu"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
"word": "kipladio"
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{
"code": "yi",
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"roman": "vuhin",
"sense": "to which place — see also where",
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{
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