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"form": "fayted",
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"first-person",
"indicative",
"participle",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "fayten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to fayten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "fayte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fayted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "faytede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "faytest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "faytedest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fayteth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "fayted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "faytede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "fayte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "fayted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "faytede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "fayte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fayten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fayte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fayteden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fayted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "faytede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fayteth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fayte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "faytynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "faytende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fayted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "fayten",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"stem": "fayt"
},
"expansion": "fayten (third-person singular simple present fayteth, present participle faytende, faytynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle fayted)",
"name": "enm-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fayt",
"inf2": "0",
"y": "0"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses",
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To train (an animal, fleshly impulses)"
],
"links": [
[
"train",
"train"
],
[
"animal",
"animal#English"
],
[
"fleshly",
"fleshly#English"
],
[
"impulse",
"impulse#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, transitive) To train (an animal, fleshly impulses)"
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfæi̯tən/"
}
],
"word": "fayten"
}
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