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{
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"word": "oft"
},
{
"lang": "Faroese",
"lang_code": "fo",
"word": "ofta"
},
{
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"word": "ofte"
},
{
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"word": "ofte"
},
{
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"word": "ofta"
},
{
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"word": "ofte"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*ufta"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ufta",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uftō.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "optarr",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "optast",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "oft",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"head": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "optarr",
"2": "optast"
},
"expansion": "opt (comparative optarr, superlative optast)",
"name": "non-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Old Norse",
"lang_code": "non",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
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},
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"examples": [
{
"english": "[…] at a grey-haired sage / never laugh,\noften is good, / that which the old tell; […]",
"ref": "Hávamál, verse 135",
"text": "[…]at hárum þul / hlæ þú aldregi,\noft er gótt, / þat er gamlir kveða;[…]",
"translation": "[…] at a grey-haired sage / never laugh,\noften is good, / that which the old tell; […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"often"
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"id": "en-opt-non-adv-k8aBSPSs",
"links": [
[
"often",
"often"
]
]
}
],
"word": "opt"
}
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"lang_code": "is",
"word": "oft"
},
{
"lang": "Faroese",
"lang_code": "fo",
"word": "ofta"
},
{
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"word": "ofte"
},
{
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"word": "ofte"
},
{
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"word": "ofta"
},
{
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"word": "ofte"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*ufta"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ufta",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uftō.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "optarr",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "optast",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "oft",
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]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "opt",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "optarr",
"2": "optast"
},
"expansion": "opt (comparative optarr, superlative optast)",
"name": "non-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Old Norse",
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"pos": "adv",
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{
"categories": [
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"Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Norse lemmas",
"Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…] at a grey-haired sage / never laugh,\noften is good, / that which the old tell; […]",
"ref": "Hávamál, verse 135",
"text": "[…]at hárum þul / hlæ þú aldregi,\noft er gótt, / þat er gamlir kveða;[…]",
"translation": "[…] at a grey-haired sage / never laugh,\noften is good, / that which the old tell; […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"often"
],
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[
"often",
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]
]
}
],
"word": "opt"
}
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