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},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *elisna",
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},
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English elsen, elsyn, alsene (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old Dutch *elisna, *alasna, from Proto-West Germanic *alisnu, *alasnu, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.",
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"text": "piercing with an elsen"
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},
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},
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},
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