"yë" meaning in Middle English

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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "ēaġe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English ēaġe",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English ēaġe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yën",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "yë",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yën"
      },
      "expansion": "yë (plural yën)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "eie"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "… And small fowls make melody,\nThose that sleep all the night with open eyes, …",
          "ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 9-10",
          "text": "[...] And smale fowles maken melodye,\nThat slepen al the night with open yë, [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of eie"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "eie",
          "eie#Middle English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈiː(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yë"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "ēaġe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English ēaġe",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English ēaġe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yën",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "nouns",
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      },
      "expansion": "yë",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yën"
      },
      "expansion": "yë (plural yën)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "eie"
        }
      ],
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        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English lemmas",
        "Middle English nouns",
        "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
        "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
        "Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "… And small fowls make melody,\nThose that sleep all the night with open eyes, …",
          "ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 9-10",
          "text": "[...] And smale fowles maken melodye,\nThat slepen al the night with open yë, [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of eie"
      ],
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        [
          "eie",
          "eie#Middle English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈiː(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yë"
}