See weyk in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Hard to hear or detect; quiet."
],
"links": [
[
"hear",
"hear"
],
[
"detect",
"detect"
],
[
"quiet",
"quiet"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of sound, rare) Hard to hear or detect; quiet."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of sound"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wæi̯k/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wɛːk/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Old Norse#Dialects"
],
"word": "weyk"
}
Download raw JSONL data for weyk meaning in Middle English (7.1kB)
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