See aerach in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Ulster"
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"Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish",
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"tags": [
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"comparative"
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{
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"error-unrecognized-form"
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"Ulster"
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],
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}
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: sexuality, LGBTQ",
"path": [
"aerach"
],
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"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "aerach",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: sexuality, LGBTQ",
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"aerach"
],
"section": "Irish",
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{
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"msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
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"aerach"
],
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"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "aerach",
"trace": "started on line 3, detected on line 17"
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{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
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"path": [
"aerach"
],
"section": "Irish",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "aerach",
"trace": ""
}
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"aerach"
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}
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