See fole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"extra": "(“to foal”):",
"word": "folen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of folen (“to foal”):",
"first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"folen",
"folen#Middle_English:_to_foal"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "fole"
}
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