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"expansion": "we",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "we (uncountable)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"woe, grief, sadness"
],
"links": [
[
"woe",
"woe"
],
[
"grief",
"grief"
],
[
"sadness",
"sadness"
]
],
"senseid": [
"enm:woe"
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wɛː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/weː/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "wee"
},
{
"word": "wea"
},
{
"word": "wæ"
}
],
"word": "we"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
"path": [
"we"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "we",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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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