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"expansion": "Sui Suic",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "Sui (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "Wiktionary’s coverage of Sui terms"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Pertaining to the Sui language or the Sui people."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "[su̯eɪ̯]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Sui"
],
"word": "Sui"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). 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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