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"name": "inh"
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"2": "Meer",
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},
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"etymology_text": "From Middle High German merswīn, from Old High German meriswīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną; equivalent to Meer + Schwein. Compare archaic English mereswine.",
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"genitive"
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"ref": "1844, Friedrich Höhne, Wahn und Überzeugung, Weimar: Wilhelm Hoffmann",
"text": "Besonders aber bringen bei warmer Witterung und ruhiger See die Meerschweine (Delphine) eine Abwechselung in das alltägliche Leben, da solche oft in stundenlangen Linien, einer hinter dem andern, zwei bis drei Schuhe hohe Sprünge über die Wasserfläche machen.",
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"(obsolete) porpoise; dolphin"
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"(usually diminutive) guinea pig"
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"name": "de-noun"
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1844, Friedrich Höhne, Wahn und Überzeugung, Weimar: Wilhelm Hoffmann",
"text": "Besonders aber bringen bei warmer Witterung und ruhiger See die Meerschweine (Delphine) eine Abwechselung in das alltägliche Leben, da solche oft in stundenlangen Linien, einer hinter dem andern, zwei bis drei Schuhe hohe Sprünge über die Wasserfläche machen.",
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"(obsolete) porpoise; dolphin"
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"word": "Delphin"
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"guinea pig"
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"(usually diminutive) guinea pig"
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"word": "Meerschwein"
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