"sun dog" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsʌn dɒɡ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsʌn ˌdɔɡ/ [General-American], /-ˌdɑɡ/ [General-American, cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sun dog.wav Forms: sun dogs [plural]
Etymology: PIE word *sóh₂wl̥ From sun + dog (“(figurative) visible atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon”). Etymology templates: {{PIE word|en|sóh₂wl̥}} PIE word *sóh₂wl̥, {{compound|en|sun|dog|notext=1|t2=(figurative) visible atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon|type=exocentric}} sun + dog (“(figurative) visible atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sun dog (plural sun dogs)
  1. A bright spot in the sky, usually one of two on a parhelic circle on both sides of the sun (or occasionally above and below it), caused by the refraction of the sun's image through ice crystals. Categories (topical): Atmospheric phenomena, Sun Synonyms: mock sun, parhelion, weather-gall, weather-gaw, sundog, sun-dog Translations (bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals): parhelium (Afrikaans), شمس كاذبة (Arabic), պարհելիում (parhelium) (Armenian), parelio (Basque), মায়া সূর্য (maẏa śurjo) (Bengali), лъжливо слънце (lǎžlivo slǎnce) (Bulgarian), пархелий (parhelij) (Bulgarian), parheli [masculine] (Catalan), خۆرەدرۆزنە (xoredrozne) (Central Kurdish), 幻日 (huànrì) (Chinese Mandarin), parhelium (Czech), paslunce (Czech), vedlejší slunce [neuter] (Czech), bisol (Danish), bijzon [feminine] (Dutch), parhelium [neuter] (Dutch), ebapäiksed (Estonian), kõrvalpäiksed (Estonian), päikesesapp (Estonian), parheelia (Estonian), auringonsappi (Finnish), sivuaurinko (Finnish), parhélie [feminine] (French), Nebensonne [feminine] (German), כלבי השמש (Hebrew), cimbora (Hungarian), melléknap (Hungarian), napkutya (Hungarian), naphalo (Hungarian), parhelion (Hungarian), vaknap (Hungarian), aukasól [feminine] (Icelandic), gíll (english: to the west of the sun) [masculine] (Icelandic), hjásól [feminine] (Icelandic), úlfakreppa (english: to the east and west of the sun simultaneously) [feminine] (Icelandic), úlfur (english: to the east of the sun) [masculine] (Icelandic), parhelion (Indonesian), parelio [masculine] (Italian), 幻日 (genjitsu) (alt: げんじつ) (Japanese), сағым күн (sağym kün) (Kazakh), 환일 (hwanil) (alt: 幻日) (Korean), parhēlium [New-Latin] (Latin), niewesonn (Luxembourgish), parhelion (Luxembourgish), лажно сонце (lažno sonce) (Macedonian), സൺ ഡോഗ്സ് (saṇ ḍōgsŭ) (Malayalam), imurangi (Maori), shá bitłʼájiiłchiiʼ (Navajo), gallj [masculine] (Norn), solhund [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bisol [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), solulv [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), bisol [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), خورشید کاذب (xoršid-e kâzeb) (Persian), خورشید مجازی (Persian), عکس خورشید (Persian), پیراخورشید (Persian), Biesonn [feminine] (Plautdietsch), parhelion [masculine] (Polish), słońce poboczne [neuter] (Polish), falso sol [masculine] (Portuguese), parélio [masculine] (Portuguese), halou [neuter] (Romanian), ло́жное со́лнце (lóžnoje sólnce) [neuter] (Russian), парге́лий (pargélij) [masculine] (Russian), ла̏жно су̑нце [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), па̀сӯнце [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), lȁžno sȗnce [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), pàsūnce [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), parhelij (Slovene), pasonce (Slovene), parhelio [masculine] (Spanish), solvarg [common-gender] (Swedish), bisol [common-gender] (Swedish), vädersol [common-gender] (Swedish), yalancı güneş (Turkish), паргелій (parhelij) [masculine] (Ukrainian), آفتاب کاذب (Urdu), ساختا قۇياش (saxta quyash) (Uyghur), mặt trời giả (Vietnamese), mặt trời ma (Vietnamese), ci haul (Welsh), ffug haul (Welsh), barhelion (Welsh)
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          "text": "Two sundogs dread famine bring / A bloody war, and new-crown'd king.",
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          "text": "The good fog heard—like a splitten sail, to the left and right she tore, / And they saw the sun-dogs in the haze and the seal upon the shore.",
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          "text": "Sometimes it is clear, and at midday the sun looks at us for a moment over the hills to the south. The northern lights flame in the sky, and the sun-dogs dance, and the air is filled with frost-dust.",
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          "ref": "1941 August 31, “When there’s a ring around the sun”, in John T. Curtis, editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 225, number 62, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Everybody’s Weekly” section, page 2, column 4:",
          "text": "Long understood also, is the fact that sundogs—colored spots of light to the right or left of the sun or moon—belong in the same class with halos.",
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          "ref": "2000, Michael J. Coyner, “Sundogs and Other Signs”, in Prairie Wisdom: Reflections on Life in the Dakotas, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN, page 126:",
          "text": "Every rainbow and every sundog remind us, \"Yes, you are human and you often fail to live up to God's standards. But God's covenant is eternal, and God loves you nonetheless and not the less.\"",
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          "ref": "2017, Suzanne Garbe, “Sun Dogs”, in The Science behind Wonders of the Sun: Sun Dogs, Lunar Eclipses and Green Flash, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Raintree, Capstone Global Library, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "Some videos seem to show sun dogs jumping around. […] No one is sure what causes these \"jumping\" sun dogs. Some scientists think the electric field from lightning in the cloud makes the ice crystals move. When the crystals move, the sun dog moves. But this is just a hypothesis. No one is sure what causes this phenomenon.",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "ebapäiksed"
        },
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "kõrvalpäiksed"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "päikesesapp"
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        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "parheelia"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "auringonsappi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "sivuaurinko"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "parhélie"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Nebensonne"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "כלבי השמש"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "cimbora"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "melléknap"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "napkutya"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "naphalo"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "word": "parhelion"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "word": "vaknap"
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          "code": "is",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "is",
          "english": "to the west of the sun",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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          "code": "is",
          "english": "to the east and west of the sun simultaneously",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "id",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "幻日"
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          "roman": "sağym kün",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "сағым күн"
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          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "hwanil",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "환일"
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          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "xoredrozne",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "خۆرەدرۆزنە"
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          "code": "lb",
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "лажно сонце"
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          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "saṇ ḍōgsŭ",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "സൺ ഡോഗ്സ്"
        },
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "imurangi"
        },
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          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "shá bitłʼájiiłchiiʼ"
        },
        {
          "code": "nrn",
          "lang": "Norn",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "gallj"
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "solhund"
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "bisol"
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          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "solulv"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "bisol"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "xoršid-e kâzeb",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "خورشید کاذب"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "خورشید مجازی"
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        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "عکس خورشید"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "پیراخورشید"
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          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Biesonn"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "parhelion"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "słońce poboczne"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "falso sol"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "parélio"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "halou"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "lóžnoje sólnce",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "ло́жное со́лнце"
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "парге́лий"
        },
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ла̏жно су̑нце"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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          "word": "па̀сӯнце"
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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          "word": "lȁžno sȗnce"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "pàsūnce"
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          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "parhelij"
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          "code": "sl",
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          "word": "pasonce"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "parhelio"
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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          "word": "solvarg"
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
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          "word": "vädersol"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "yalancı güneş"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "parhelij",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "паргелій"
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          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "آفتاب کاذب"
        },
        {
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "saxta quyash",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "ساختا قۇياش"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "mặt trời giả"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "mặt trời ma"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "ci haul"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "ffug haul"
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        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
          "word": "barhelion"
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          "text": "December […] the 28th [1714], the Sun being an Hour high, appeared a Sun-Dog or Parhelion, the Sky full of flying Clouds.",
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          "text": "Sun-dogs, called Mock Suns, becauſe they reſemble the ſun, are tvvo ſpots that frequently appear in a cloud vvhen the ſun ſhines through it, and vvhen he is about 15 to 20 degrees above the horizon. […] One is ſituated on the north, and the other on the ſouth ſide of the ſun. The refraction and reflection of the rays of light are the cauſe of theſe phænomena.",
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          "ref": "1837 April, F. [pseudonym], “Notices by the Way Side—from Notes Taken in 1821. No. IV. Sacket’s Harbor.”, in The Monthly Traveller, or Spirit of the Periodical Press. […], volume VIII, number 4, Boston, Mass.: Badger & Porter, […], →OCLC, page 146, column 1:",
          "text": "Two sundogs dread famine bring / A bloody war, and new-crown'd king.",
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          "ref": "1896, Rudyard Kipling, “[The Seven Seas.] The Rhyme of the Three Sealers.”, in The Seven Seas, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 68:",
          "text": "The good fog heard—like a splitten sail, to the left and right she tore, / And they saw the sun-dogs in the haze and the seal upon the shore.",
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          "text": "Sometimes it is clear, and at midday the sun looks at us for a moment over the hills to the south. The northern lights flame in the sky, and the sun-dogs dance, and the air is filled with frost-dust.",
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          "text": "A sun dog on each side of the sun foretell a bad storm in the night.",
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          "ref": "1941 August 31, “When there’s a ring around the sun”, in John T. Curtis, editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 225, number 62, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Everybody’s Weekly” section, page 2, column 4:",
          "text": "Long understood also, is the fact that sundogs—colored spots of light to the right or left of the sun or moon—belong in the same class with halos.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Michael J. Coyner, “Sundogs and Other Signs”, in Prairie Wisdom: Reflections on Life in the Dakotas, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN, page 126:",
          "text": "Every rainbow and every sundog remind us, \"Yes, you are human and you often fail to live up to God's standards. But God's covenant is eternal, and God loves you nonetheless and not the less.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Suzanne Garbe, “Sun Dogs”, in The Science behind Wonders of the Sun: Sun Dogs, Lunar Eclipses and Green Flash, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Raintree, Capstone Global Library, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "Some videos seem to show sun dogs jumping around. […] No one is sure what causes these \"jumping\" sun dogs. Some scientists think the electric field from lightning in the cloud makes the ice crystals move. When the crystals move, the sun dog moves. But this is just a hypothesis. No one is sure what causes this phenomenon.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bright spot in the sky, usually one of two on a parhelic circle on both sides of the sun (or occasionally above and below it), caused by the refraction of the sun's image through ice crystals."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bright",
          "bright#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "spot",
          "spot#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sky",
          "sky#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "two",
          "two#Numeral"
        ],
        [
          "parhelic circle",
          "parhelic circle"
        ],
        [
          "sides",
          "side#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sun",
          "sun#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "caused",
          "cause#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "refraction",
          "refraction"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "ice crystals",
          "ice crystals"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mock sun"
        },
        {
          "word": "parhelion"
        },
        {
          "word": "weather-gall"
        },
        {
          "word": "weather-gaw"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsʌn dɒɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsʌn ˌdɔɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌdɑɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sundog"
    },
    {
      "word": "sun-dog"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parhelium"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "شمس كاذبة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "parhelium",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "պարհելիում"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parelio"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "maẏa śurjo",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "মায়া সূর্য"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lǎžlivo slǎnce",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "лъжливо слънце"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "parhelij",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "пархелий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "parheli"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huànrì",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "幻日"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parhelium"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "paslunce"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vedlejší slunce"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "bisol"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bijzon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "parhelium"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "ebapäiksed"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "kõrvalpäiksed"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "päikesesapp"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parheelia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "auringonsappi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "sivuaurinko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parhélie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Nebensonne"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "כלבי השמש"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "cimbora"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "melléknap"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "napkutya"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "naphalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parhelion"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "vaknap"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aukasól"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "to the west of the sun",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gíll"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hjásól"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "to the east and west of the sun simultaneously",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "úlfakreppa"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "to the east of the sun",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "úlfur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parhelion"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "parelio"
    },
    {
      "alt": "げんじつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "genjitsu",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "幻日"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "sağym kün",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "сағым күн"
    },
    {
      "alt": "幻日",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hwanil",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "환일"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "xoredrozne",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "خۆرەدرۆزنە"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "New-Latin"
      ],
      "word": "parhēlium"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "niewesonn"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parhelion"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "lažno sonce",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "лажно сонце"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "saṇ ḍōgsŭ",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "സൺ ഡോഗ്സ്"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "imurangi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "shá bitłʼájiiłchiiʼ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrn",
      "lang": "Norn",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gallj"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "solhund"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bisol"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "solulv"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bisol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xoršid-e kâzeb",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "خورشید کاذب"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "خورشید مجازی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "عکس خورشید"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "پیراخورشید"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Biesonn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "parhelion"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "słońce poboczne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falso sol"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "parélio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "halou"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lóžnoje sólnce",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ло́жное со́лнце"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pargélij",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "парге́лий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ла̏жно су̑нце"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "па̀сӯнце"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lȁžno sȗnce"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pàsūnce"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "parhelij"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "pasonce"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "parhelio"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "solvarg"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bisol"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vädersol"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "yalancı güneş"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "parhelij",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "паргелій"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "آفتاب کاذب"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "saxta quyash",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "ساختا قۇياش"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "mặt trời giả"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "mặt trời ma"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "ci haul"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "ffug haul"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals",
      "word": "barhelion"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sun dog"
}

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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.