See -a in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "West Slavic:"
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"text": "Sorbian:"
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{
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}
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"reconstruction"
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"templates": [],
"text": "South Slavic:"
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{
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{
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],
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},
{
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],
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"expansion": "Kashubian: -a",
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}
],
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"expansion": "Slovincian: -a",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Slovincian: -a"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Sorbian:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
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"1": "dsb",
"2": "-a"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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{
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"2": "-a"
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"name": "desc"
}
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"plural"
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{
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"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"dual"
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"plural"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "-y",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-ojǫ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-ǫ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-ama",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dual",
"instrumental"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"locative"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-axъ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-o",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "-ě",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "-y",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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],
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{
"text": "běťi (“to run”) + *-a → *běga (“runner, escaper”)"
},
{
"text": "břuzgati (“to splash; to mumble, to mutter, to murmur”) + *-a → *břuzga (“nag, moaner, crybaby”)"
}
],
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"forms agent nouns from verbs"
],
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"(rare) forms agent nouns from verbs"
],
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"morpheme",
"rare",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "-a"
}
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"Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
"Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European"
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"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
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"name": "inh"
},
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}
],
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},
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}
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"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-a",
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{
"word": "*-o"
}
],
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"nominative/accusative/vocative plural of *-o"
],
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"Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-o"
]
],
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"morpheme",
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"plural",
"reconstruction",
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]
}
],
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"Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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}
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"word": "*-ъ"
}
],
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"genitive singular of *-ъ"
],
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}
],
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"genitive singular of *-o"
],
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"Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-o"
]
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"morpheme",
"reconstruction",
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]
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],
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}
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