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"english": "Why do you speak of that, woman, so much (you) remind me pressingly in front of this crowd?",
"roman": "Te huī sprikis thū thes wīf, sō filu manos mī far thesoro mėnigi?",
"text": "Heliand, verse 2026-2027",
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"english": "Why do you speak of that, woman, so much (you) remind me pressingly in front of this crowd?",
"roman": "Te huī sprikis thū thes wīf, sō filu manos mī far thesoro mėnigi?",
"text": "Heliand, verse 2026-2027",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old Saxon dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). 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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