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"genitive",
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"third-person"
]
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"dative",
"feminine",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
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"source": "inflection",
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"dative",
"feminine",
"singular",
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]
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"third-person"
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"plural",
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"2": "pronoun",
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"pos": "pron",
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"ref": "6th-7th century, inscription on the Bülach fibula",
"text": "ᚠᚱᛁᚠᚱᛁᛞᛁᛚ / ᛞᚢ / ...\nfrifridil / du / […]\nfrifridil / du / ...\nfrifridil / du / […]",
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[
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"singular"
]
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"nominative",
"singular",
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"masculine",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "imo",
"source": "inflection",
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"masculine",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
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{
"form": "inan",
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"masculine",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"nominative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"nominative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "si",
"source": "inflection",
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"nominative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ira (iru, iro)",
"source": "inflection",
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"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "iru",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "iro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sia",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "iz",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "es",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "is",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "imu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "imo",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "iz",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wir",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unsēr",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "uns",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"first-person",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unsih",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"first-person",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ir",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"also",
"nominative",
"plural",
"polite",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "iuwēr",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"also",
"genitive",
"plural",
"polite",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "iu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"also",
"dative",
"plural",
"polite",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "iuwih",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
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"also",
"plural",
"polite",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sie",
"source": "inflection",
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"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "iro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "im",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "in",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sie",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sio",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sio",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "siu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "siu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "thū",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "ᛞᚢ",
"roman": "du",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "pronoun",
"head": "dū"
},
"expansion": "dū",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old High German",
"lang_code": "goh",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old High German entries with incorrect language header",
"Old High German lemmas",
"Old High German pronouns",
"Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old High German terms with quotations",
"Old High German terms with redundant script codes",
"Old High German terms with redundant transliterations",
"Pages with 71 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[my] beloved, you / […]",
"ref": "6th-7th century, inscription on the Bülach fibula",
"text": "ᚠᚱᛁᚠᚱᛁᛞᛁᛚ / ᛞᚢ / ...\nfrifridil / du / […]\nfrifridil / du / ...\nfrifridil / du / […]",
"translation": "[my] beloved, you / […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"thou, you (second-person singular pronoun)"
],
"links": [
[
"thou",
"thou"
],
[
"you",
"you"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/duː/"
}
],
"word": "du"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old High German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). 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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