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{
"glosses": [
"whose, of who"
],
"links": [
[
"whose",
"whose#English"
],
[
"of",
"of"
],
[
"who",
"who"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(relative) whose, of who"
],
"tags": [
"relative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"whose, of who"
],
"links": [
[
"whose",
"whose#English"
],
[
"of",
"of"
],
[
"who",
"who"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(interrogative, rare) whose, of who"
],
"tags": [
"interrogative",
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"of which (inanimate)"
],
"links": [
[
"which",
"which#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(relative, rare) of which (inanimate)"
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"relative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/hwɔːs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/hwoːs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/hwɑːs/",
"note": "early"
},
{
"ipa": "/hwaːs/",
"tags": [
"Northern"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hoes"
},
{
"word": "hos"
},
{
"word": "hose"
},
{
"word": "hosse"
},
{
"word": "hoys"
},
{
"word": "huas"
},
{
"word": "qwoys"
},
{
"word": "was"
},
{
"word": "whas"
},
{
"word": "whoes"
},
{
"word": "whois"
},
{
"word": "whoos"
},
{
"word": "whose"
},
{
"word": "wos"
},
{
"word": "wose"
},
{
"tags": [
"Northern"
],
"word": "quas"
},
{
"word": "whase"
},
{
"word": "whayse"
},
{
"sense": "early",
"word": "hwas"
},
{
"word": "hwæs"
},
{
"word": "hwes"
},
{
"word": "hwos"
}
],
"word": "whos"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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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