See welthe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''Wealth, prosperity, plentifuln'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"welthe"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "welthe",
"trace": ""
}
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