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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
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]
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{
"form": "mitst",
"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
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"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "mitt",
"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
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]
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
"present"
]
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural",
"present"
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
"past"
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"to measure"
],
"id": "en-metan-ang-verb-3azuFF3K",
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"english": "Look to it now that thy desire be not beyond measure, now that thou comparest them together. Wouldst thou know God just as thou dost Alypius?",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\nLōca nu þæt þū ofergemet ne wilnige, nū ðū hī tōgædere metest. Woldest þū cunnan God swā swā Alipius?",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"english": "It's not comparable, the finite with the infinite.",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nHit nis nā tō metenne, þæt ġeendodlīċe wiþ þæt unġeendodlīċe.",
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}
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[
"compare",
"compare"
],
[
"wiþ",
"wiþ#Old English"
],
[
"tō",
"to#Old English"
]
]
}
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}
],
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"source": "conjugation",
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"4": "to appear in a dream"
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"present",
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"past",
"singular"
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{
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"past",
"plural",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"word": "āmētan"
},
{
"word": "mēting"
},
{
"word": "onmētan"
}
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"to draw or paint"
],
"id": "en-metan-ang-verb-yedYwInh",
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"word": "*tīefran"
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"Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old English terms with unknown etymologies",
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},
{
"word": "bemetan"
},
{
"word": "efnmetan"
},
{
"word": "ġemet"
},
{
"word": "ġemetan"
},
{
"word": "metegian"
},
{
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}
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},
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"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old English terms with unknown etymologies",
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},
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},
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"to draw or paint"
],
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}
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