See -an in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Forms the following inflections of weak adjectives:",
"Masculine and feminine accusative, genitive, dative, and instrumental singular"
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},
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"glosses": [
"Forms the following inflections of weak adjectives:",
"Neuter genitive, dative, and instrumental singular"
],
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"instrumental",
"morpheme",
"neuter",
"singular"
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},
{
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"Forms the following inflections of weak adjectives:",
"Masculine, feminine, and neuter nominative and accusative plural"
],
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"morpheme",
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"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɑn/"
}
],
"word": "-an"
}
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"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English lemmas",
"Old English suffixes",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages using catfix",
"Pages with 35 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "suffix",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "-um"
}
],
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"Alternative form of -um"
],
"links": [
[
"-um",
"-um#Old_English"
]
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɑn/"
}
],
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}
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