See gneiss in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "гнајс"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "gnajs"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neis"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gneis"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gnejs"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "hnejs",
"sense": "common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "гнейс"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock",
"word": "gơ-nai"
}
],
"word": "gneiss"
}
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