See sweven in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "\"And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: \"I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams […]",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Dedis of Apoſtlis 2:17, folio 91, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010",
"text": "⁊ it ſchal be in þe laſte daies þe loꝛd ſeiþ · Y ſchal helde out my ſpirit on ech fleiſch · ⁊ ȝoure ſones and ȝoure douȝtris ſchulen p[ꝛo]pheſie ⁊ ȝoure ȝonge men ſchulen ſe viſioūs. ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme ſweuenes",
"translation": "\"And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: \"I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams […]"
}
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"ipa": "/ˈswɛ̞ːvən/"
}
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"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
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"english": "\"And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: \"I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams […]",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Dedis of Apoſtlis 2:17, folio 91, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010",
"text": "⁊ it ſchal be in þe laſte daies þe loꝛd ſeiþ · Y ſchal helde out my ſpirit on ech fleiſch · ⁊ ȝoure ſones and ȝoure douȝtris ſchulen p[ꝛo]pheſie ⁊ ȝoure ȝonge men ſchulen ſe viſioūs. ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme ſweuenes",
"translation": "\"And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: \"I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams […]"
}
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"present"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
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"plural",
"present"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
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},
{
"form": "ysweved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "sweven",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "swev"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to put to sleep"
],
"links": [
[
"sleep",
"sleep"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to become calm (of the sea)"
],
"links": [
[
"calm",
"calm"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) to become calm (of the sea)"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈswɛ̞ːvən/"
}
],
"word": "sweven"
}
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