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"word": "со́лнечный свет"
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"2": "zonlicht",
"t": "sunlight"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "Sünnenlücht",
"t": "sunlight"
},
"expansion": "German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Sonnenlicht",
"t": "sunlight"
},
"expansion": "German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sunlights",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sunlighting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sunlighted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sunlighted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"sun‧light"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime."
],
"links": [
[
"work",
"work"
],
[
"on the side",
"on the side"
],
[
"daytime",
"daytime"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌnlaɪt"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-sunlight.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-us-sunlight.ogg/En-us-sunlight.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-sunlight.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "sunlight"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": ji̍t-kng, li̍t-kng, ji̍t-kuiⁿ vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"sunlight"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "sunlight",
"trace": ""
}
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