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}
],
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"Old Irish feminine nouns",
"Old Irish lemmas",
"Old Irish nouns",
"Old Irish onomatopoeias",
"Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
"Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
"Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old Irish ā-stem nouns",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
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"sga:Poultry"
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{
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}
],
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}
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"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: cerc/Old Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
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"title": "cerc",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
"path": [
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],
"section": "Old Irish",
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"title": "cerc",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
"path": [
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