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"1": "enm",
"2": "wouh"
},
"expansion": "wouh",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "wāh"
},
"expansion": "Old English wāh",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "wāg",
"3": "",
"4": "a wall, partition"
},
"expansion": "wāg (“a wall, partition”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*waigaz",
"t": "wall"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*weyk-",
"4": "",
"5": "to bend, twist"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "wauch"
},
"expansion": "Scots wauch",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "vauch"
},
"expansion": "vauch",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "wo",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Northern England English",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1871, John Richardson, \"Cummerland Talk\": Being Short Tales and Rhymes, page 101",
"text": "[…] “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 2",
"text": "It's a varra lang while—a caant tell ya hoo lang—sen it wes bilt, lang afooar Borradal fooak woet kucku in, er t' first cooach ran throo Dent, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around)."
],
"links": [
[
"wall",
"wall"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Northern England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around)."
],
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"dialectal",
"obsolete",
"possibly"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wo/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wɔː/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-o"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"Scotland"
],
"word": "waw"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "waugh"
},
{
"word": "whoa"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"wo"
],
"word": "wo"
}
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