See suster in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"msg": "form='suster' has many different link candidates `{link_dict[form]}`, which can't be disambiguated.",
"path": [
"suster"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "suster",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
"msg": "form='suster' has many different link candidates `{link_dict[form]}`, which can't be disambiguated.",
"path": [
"suster"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "suster",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
"msg": "form='sustres' has many different link candidates `{link_dict[form]}`, which can't be disambiguated.",
"path": [
"suster"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "suster",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
"msg": "form='suster' has many different link candidates `{link_dict[form]}`, which can't be disambiguated.",
"path": [
"suster"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "suster",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
"msg": "form='sustres' has many different link candidates `{link_dict[form]}`, which can't be disambiguated.",
"path": [
"suster"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "suster",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
"msg": "form='suster' has many different link candidates `{link_dict[form]}`, which can't be disambiguated.",
"path": [
"suster"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "suster",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-05-01 using wiktextract (f3d3fdb and ae80fde). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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