See trotter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "the foot of a pig",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "čaponjak"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "totik",
"sense": "the foot of a sheep",
"word": "տոտիկ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "pʻačʻa",
"sense": "the foot of a sheep",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "փաչա"
}
],
"word": "trotter"
}
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