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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Added to verb stems to create a noun describing an error relating to the action described by the verb."
],
"links": [
[
"verb",
"verb#English"
],
[
"stem",
"stem#English"
],
[
"noun",
"noun#English"
],
[
"error",
"error#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/oʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "o"
},
{
"homophone": "owe"
},
{
"homophone": "oh"
}
],
"word": "-o"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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.
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