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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to distal",
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"_dis1": "8 6 4 17 8 49 7",
"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to distal",
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"_dis1": "8 6 4 17 8 49 7",
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"word": "anaporate"
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"_dis1": "8 6 4 17 8 49 7",
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"word": "anatreme"
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"_dis1": "9 7 5 19 13 31 17",
"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to add or change in-place",
"word": "anabranch"
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"_dis1": "9 7 5 19 13 31 17",
"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to add or change in-place",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to add or change in-place",
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"_dis1": "9 7 5 19 13 31 17",
"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to add or change in-place",
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"_dis1": "9 7 5 19 13 31 17",
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"word": "isoanabase"
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to against",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to against",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to distal",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to distal",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to distal",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to distal",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to distal",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to add or change in-place",
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"sense": "terms derived from ana- relating to add or change in-place",
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"sense": "up; upwards",
"word": "ana-"
}
],
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}
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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.