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"english": "wild horse",
"word": "besta brava"
}
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"2": "roa-opt",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
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"4": "",
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},
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"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese besta, from Latin bēstia (“beast”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bestas",
"tags": [
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}
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"lang_code": "gl",
"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
{
"_dis": "22 15 4 12 20 27",
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"beast"
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],
"tags": [
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},
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{
"english": "for the animals [used] for riding or for carrying load",
"ref": "1326, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295",
"text": "pelas bestas de caualgar et carrega",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "They told me that even the horse that brought the postbag with such good news arrived earlier than usual, happy as a lark.",
"ref": "1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa",
"text": "Dixêronme que asta á besta que trouxêra á balixâ con tan boa notisea, chegara mais sedo do que habia doito leda coma un cuco.",
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],
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"equine"
]
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]
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"english": "You'll come here my little Diego\nwhen the weather improves\nbecause if the mount slips\nand you sprawl, here goes nothing!",
"ref": "1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance",
"roman": "è esbarroufàs, alabay.",
"text": "Virés acò meu Dieguiño\ncando ò tempo milloràr,\nporqe si escorrega á Besta",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"mount"
]
],
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"langcode": "gl",
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"Medicine",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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}
],
"glosses": [
"mare"
],
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}
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"Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese",
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"plural"
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}
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"pos": "noun",
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"beast (quadruped animal)"
],
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[
"beast",
"beast"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
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"categories": [
"Galician terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "for the animals [used] for riding or for carrying load",
"ref": "1326, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295",
"text": "pelas bestas de caualgar et carrega",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "They told me that even the horse that brought the postbag with such good news arrived earlier than usual, happy as a lark.",
"ref": "1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa",
"text": "Dixêronme que asta á besta que trouxêra á balixâ con tan boa notisea, chegara mais sedo do que habia doito leda coma un cuco.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"horse or any other equine"
],
"links": [
[
"horse",
"horse"
],
[
"equine",
"equine"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
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"categories": [
"Galician terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"english": "You'll come here my little Diego\nwhen the weather improves\nbecause if the mount slips\nand you sprawl, here goes nothing!",
"ref": "1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance",
"roman": "è esbarroufàs, alabay.",
"text": "Virés acò meu Dieguiño\ncando ò tempo milloràr,\nporqe si escorrega á Besta",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"mount"
],
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[
"mount",
"mount"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"mare"
],
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"mare",
"mare"
]
],
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"word": "egua"
}
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"feminine"
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},
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"brute"
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"brute",
"brute"
]
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"(figuratively) brute"
],
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{
"word": "bruto"
}
],
"tags": [
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbesta̝/"
}
],
"word": "besta"
}
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"gl:Animals",
"pt:Animals",
"pt:Archery",
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