See come upon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Kala sometimes talked with the older females about her young hopeful, but none of them could understand how a child could be so slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it.",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "to come across; to discover",
"word": "tar ar"
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"word": "komme over"
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"code": "got",
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"sense": "to befall; to affect",
"word": "𐌱𐌹𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽"
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"sense": "to come across; to discover",
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"sense": "to come across; to discover",
"word": "komme over"
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"sense": "to befall; to affect",
"word": "𐌱𐌹𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽"
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