"folwen" meaning in Middle English

See folwen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɔlwən/, /ˈfɔlɔu̯ən/, /ˈfɔliu̯ən/, /ˈvɔliu̯ən/ (note: especially Kent, Southern, South Midland), /ˈfilɔu̯/, /ˈfil(i)x/, /ˈfilɔx/, /ˈfɛl-/ (note: Essex, Northern, Northeast Midland), /ˈvɔli.ən/ (note: early Southern)
Etymology: From Old English folgian, from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną. Forms such as filigh and folien are due to conflation with Old English fylġan. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|folgian}} Old English folgian, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*folgēn}} Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*fulgāną}} Proto-Germanic *fulgāną, {{m+|ang|fylġan}} Old English fylġan Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} folwen, {{enm-verb|stem=folw}} folwen (third-person singular simple present folweth, present participle folwende, folwynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle folwed) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|folw}} Forms: folweth [present, singular, third-person], folwende [participle, present], folwynge [participle, present], folwed [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], no-table-tags [table-tags], folwen [infinitive], to folwen [infinitive], folwe [infinitive], folwe [first-person, present, singular], folwed [first-person, past, singular], folwest [present, second-person, singular], folwedest [past, second-person, singular], folweth [present, singular, third-person], folwed [past, singular, third-person], folwe [present, singular, subjunctive], folwed [past, singular, subjunctive], folwe [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], folwen [plural, present], folwe [plural, present], folweden [past, plural], folwede [past, plural], folweth [imperative, plural, present], folwe [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], folwynge [participle, present], folwende [participle, present], folwed [participle, past], yfolwed [participle, past], folewe [alternative], folowe [alternative], folwe [alternative], folȝen [alternative, Early-Middle-English], folȝien [alternative, Early-Middle-English], folhe [alternative, Early-Middle-English], folhen [alternative, Early-Middle-English], folien [alternative, Early-Middle-English], folhin [alternative], follȝhenn [alternative, Ormulum], ffolwe [alternative, Late-Middle-English], follow [alternative, Late-Middle-English], folue [alternative, Late-Middle-English], folwyn [alternative, Late-Middle-English], filȝen [alternative, Essex], volȝy [alternative, Kent], ffolow [alternative, Northern], filghe [alternative, Northern], filigh [alternative, Northern], foloȝe [alternative, Northern], folu [alternative, Northern], fulu [alternative, Northern], fylloy [alternative, Northern], folwie [alternative], volewen [alternative]
  1. (ambitransitive) To come after or succeed:
    To follow; to succeed spatially.
    Tags: ambitransitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-e1ef~CF3 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, Time Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 4 5 3 7 7 5 6 16 2 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 29 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 25 2 2 Disambiguation of Time: 27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13
  2. (ambitransitive) To come after or succeed:
    To be subsequent; to succeed temporally.
    Tags: ambitransitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-9fOwf9qe Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, Time Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 4 5 3 7 7 5 6 16 2 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 29 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 25 2 2 Disambiguation of Time: 27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13
  3. (transitive) To adhere or be attached to:
    To move in the path of.
    Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-AOnle5e6
  4. (transitive) To adhere or be attached to:
    To mimic or emulate: to take as an example.
    Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-ZEcU0RV9
  5. (transitive) To adhere or be attached to:
    To attend upon; to serve or work for.
    Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-R8SlLJCW
  6. (transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:
    To comply or adhere to a directive (or rarely, opinion)
    Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-OTl3S4qc Categories (other): Law, Time Disambiguation of Law: 2 2 9 9 9 33 5 5 27 1 0 1 Disambiguation of Time: 27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13
  7. (transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:
    To be connected to or depend upon.
    Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-jST8KAx4
  8. (transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:
    To correspond to or be a consequence of.
    Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-ZJVsBKhq
  9. (ambitransitive) To continue or persist. Tags: ambitransitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-BofR815s
  10. (transitive) To look or search for; to try to find. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-uv-RIjr- Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 20 20 4 5 3 7 7 5 6 16 2 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 17 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 35 3 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 29 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 25 2 2
  11. (transitive) To harass (usually legally or of a disease) Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-xp~wTxWX Categories (other): Disease Disambiguation of Disease: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0
  12. (transitive, rare) To get or achieve. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-folwen-enm-verb-MpsiWmK9 Categories (other): Time Disambiguation of Time: 27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: folwere

Alternative forms

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    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "follow"
    },
    {
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        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "follae"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "folȝe"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "follae"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "folow"
    },
    {
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        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "follae"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "falow"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "folgian"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
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    {
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
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    {
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        "2": "fylġan"
      },
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      "name": "m+"
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  "etymology_text": "From Old English folgian, from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną.\nForms such as filigh and folien are due to conflation with Old English fylġan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "folweth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwende",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwed",
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        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
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      ]
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    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to folwen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folweth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folweden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folweth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yfolwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folewe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folowe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folȝien",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folhe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folhen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folien",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folhin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "follȝhenn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ormulum"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ffolwe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "follow",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folue",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwyn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Essex"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "volȝy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Kent"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ffolow",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filghe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filigh",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folu",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fulu",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fylloy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "volewen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
        "stem": "folw"
      },
      "expansion": "folwen (third-person singular simple present folweth, present participle folwende, folwynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle folwed)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "folw"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "folwere"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "20 20 4 5 3 7 7 5 6 16 2 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 29 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 25 2 2",
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          "_dis": "27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13",
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        }
      ],
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        "To come after or succeed:",
        "To follow; to succeed spatially."
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          "after",
          "after"
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        [
          "succeed",
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        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
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          "spatially"
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        "(ambitransitive) To come after or succeed:",
        "To follow; to succeed spatially."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "20 20 4 5 3 7 7 5 6 16 2 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        {
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          "_dis": "27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13",
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        }
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        "To come after or succeed:",
        "To be subsequent; to succeed temporally."
      ],
      "id": "en-folwen-enm-verb-9fOwf9qe",
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        [
          "come",
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        [
          "after",
          "after"
        ],
        [
          "succeed",
          "succeed"
        ],
        [
          "subsequent",
          "subsequent"
        ],
        [
          "temporally",
          "temporally"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To come after or succeed:",
        "To be subsequent; to succeed temporally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To move in the path of."
      ],
      "id": "en-folwen-enm-verb-AOnle5e6",
      "links": [
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "attach",
          "attach"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To move in the path of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To mimic or emulate: to take as an example."
      ],
      "id": "en-folwen-enm-verb-ZEcU0RV9",
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          "adhere",
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        [
          "attach",
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        [
          "mimic",
          "mimic"
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        [
          "emulate",
          "emulate"
        ],
        [
          "example",
          "example"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To mimic or emulate: to take as an example."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To attend upon; to serve or work for."
      ],
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        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "attach",
          "attach"
        ],
        [
          "attend",
          "attend"
        ],
        [
          "serve",
          "serve"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To attend upon; to serve or work for."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 2 9 9 9 33 5 5 27 1 0 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "enm:Law",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "enm:Time",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To comply or adhere to a directive (or rarely, opinion)"
      ],
      "id": "en-folwen-enm-verb-OTl3S4qc",
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "comply",
          "comply"
        ],
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "directive",
          "directive"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To comply or adhere to a directive (or rarely, opinion)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To be connected to or depend upon."
      ],
      "id": "en-folwen-enm-verb-jST8KAx4",
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "connect",
          "connect"
        ],
        [
          "depend",
          "depend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To be connected to or depend upon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To correspond to or be a consequence of."
      ],
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        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "correspond",
          "correspond"
        ],
        [
          "consequence",
          "consequence"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To correspond to or be a consequence of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
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        "To continue or persist."
      ],
      "id": "en-folwen-enm-verb-BofR815s",
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To continue or persist."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "20 20 4 5 3 7 7 5 6 16 2 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 17 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 35 3 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 29 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 25 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To look or search for; to try to find."
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      "id": "en-folwen-enm-verb-uv-RIjr-",
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        [
          "look",
          "look"
        ],
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ],
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "find",
          "find"
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        "(transitive) To look or search for; to try to find."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        "To harass (usually legally or of a disease)"
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      "links": [
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "legally",
          "legally#English"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease#English"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To harass (usually legally or of a disease)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 27 0 0 0 25 0 0 9 0 0 13",
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          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "enm:Time",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To get or achieve."
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        [
          "get",
          "get"
        ],
        [
          "achieve",
          "achieve"
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        "(transitive, rare) To get or achieve."
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        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔlwən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔlɔu̯ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔliu̯ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɔliu̯ən/",
      "note": "especially Kent, Southern, South Midland"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfilɔu̯/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfil(i)x/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfilɔx/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɛl-/",
      "note": "Essex, Northern, Northeast Midland"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɔli.ən/",
      "note": "early Southern"
    }
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  "word": "folwen"
}
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    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English verbs",
    "Middle English weak verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Disease",
    "enm:Law",
    "enm:Time"
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      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "follow"
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        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "follae"
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      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "folȝe"
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        {
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          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "follae"
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          "word": "follae"
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        "3": "folgian"
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      "expansion": "Old English folgian",
      "name": "inh"
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    {
      "args": {
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      "args": {
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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      "form": "folwende",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "folwynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "table-tags"
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      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
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      "form": "folwen",
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      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
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      "form": "to folwen",
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      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
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      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "folwest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "folwedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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      "form": "folweth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "folweden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folweth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yfolwed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "folewe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folowe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folȝien",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folhe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folhen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folien",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folhin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "follȝhenn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ormulum"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "ffolwe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "follow",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folue",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwyn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Essex"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "volȝy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Kent"
      ]
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      "form": "ffolow",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filghe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filigh",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folu",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fulu",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fylloy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folwie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "volewen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
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      "expansion": "folwen",
      "name": "head"
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    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "folw"
      },
      "expansion": "folwen (third-person singular simple present folweth, present participle folwende, folwynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle folwed)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
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  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "folw"
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      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "folwere"
    }
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  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English intransitive verbs",
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come after or succeed:",
        "To follow; to succeed spatially."
      ],
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        [
          "come",
          "come"
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        [
          "after",
          "after"
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        [
          "succeed",
          "succeed"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ],
        [
          "spatially",
          "spatially"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To come after or succeed:",
        "To follow; to succeed spatially."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English intransitive verbs",
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come after or succeed:",
        "To be subsequent; to succeed temporally."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "come",
          "come"
        ],
        [
          "after",
          "after"
        ],
        [
          "succeed",
          "succeed"
        ],
        [
          "subsequent",
          "subsequent"
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        [
          "temporally",
          "temporally"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To come after or succeed:",
        "To be subsequent; to succeed temporally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To move in the path of."
      ],
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        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "attach",
          "attach"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "path",
          "path"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To move in the path of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To mimic or emulate: to take as an example."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "attach",
          "attach"
        ],
        [
          "mimic",
          "mimic"
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        [
          "emulate",
          "emulate"
        ],
        [
          "example",
          "example"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To mimic or emulate: to take as an example."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To attend upon; to serve or work for."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "attach",
          "attach"
        ],
        [
          "attend",
          "attend"
        ],
        [
          "serve",
          "serve"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To adhere or be attached to:",
        "To attend upon; to serve or work for."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To comply or adhere to a directive (or rarely, opinion)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "comply",
          "comply"
        ],
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "directive",
          "directive"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To comply or adhere to a directive (or rarely, opinion)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To be connected to or depend upon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "connect",
          "connect"
        ],
        [
          "depend",
          "depend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To be connected to or depend upon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To correspond to or be a consequence of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "correspond",
          "correspond"
        ],
        [
          "consequence",
          "consequence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be subject or subordinate to:",
        "To correspond to or be a consequence of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English intransitive verbs",
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue or persist."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To continue or persist."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To look or search for; to try to find."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "look",
          "look"
        ],
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ],
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "find",
          "find"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To look or search for; to try to find."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To harass (usually legally or of a disease)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "legally",
          "legally#English"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To harass (usually legally or of a disease)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses",
        "Middle English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get or achieve."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "get",
          "get"
        ],
        [
          "achieve",
          "achieve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To get or achieve."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔlwən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔlɔu̯ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔliu̯ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɔliu̯ən/",
      "note": "especially Kent, Southern, South Midland"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfilɔu̯/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfil(i)x/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfilɔx/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɛl-/",
      "note": "Essex, Northern, Northeast Midland"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɔli.ən/",
      "note": "early Southern"
    }
  ],
  "word": "folwen"
}

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