See slīban in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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"name": "desctree"
}
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},
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}
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{
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"source": "inflection",
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"infinitive"
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},
{
"form": "slībannjas",
"source": "inflection",
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"genitive",
"infinitive"
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{
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"source": "inflection",
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{
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{
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"source": "inflection",
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]
},
{
"form": "slībiʀi",
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"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slibī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slībidi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "slaib",
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"tags": [
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"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slībum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slibum",
"source": "inflection",
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},
{
"form": "slībid",
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]
},
{
"form": "slīband",
"source": "inflection",
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"present",
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]
},
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]
},
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},
{
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},
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"form": "slībēs",
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},
{
"form": "slībē",
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},
{
"form": "slibī",
"source": "inflection",
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"third-person"
]
},
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"form": "slībēm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slibīm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slībēþ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slibīd",
"source": "inflection",
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"second-person"
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},
{
"form": "slībēn",
"source": "inflection",
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{
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{
"form": "slīb",
"source": "inflection",
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"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slībid",
"source": "inflection",
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"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slībandī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sliban",
"source": "inflection",
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"participle",
"past"
]
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"lang_code": "gmw-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/slīban",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 52",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 53",
"kind": "other",
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],
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"to split, divide"
],
"id": "en-slīban-gmw-pro-verb-KK0pdC80",
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[
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],
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"reconstruction"
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{
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"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"to apportion"
],
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]
],
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}
],
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"Brill Publishers",
"Nicoline van der Sijs"
],
"word": "slīban"
}
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"Pages with entries",
"Proto-West Germanic class 1 strong verbs",
"Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-West Germanic lemmas",
"Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Proto-West Germanic terms with unknown etymologies",
"Proto-West Germanic verbs"
],
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{
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"args": {
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"2": "slīfan"
},
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"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old English: slīfan\nMiddle English: sliven; slivere, sliver\nScots: slive; scleeberie, slaiver, sliver\nEnglish: slive (obsolete); sliver"
},
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"2": "*slīvan"
},
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"name": "desc"
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"text": "Old Saxon: *slīvan"
},
{
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{
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"1": "gml",
"2": "slîven",
"t": "to ladle out, spoon in, ingest",
"unc": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
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}
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"3": "*(s)ley-",
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"t": "carpenter's file"
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"tags": [
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{
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "slībannjas",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "slībannjē",
"source": "inflection",
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]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
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},
{
"form": "slību",
"source": "inflection",
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"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slaib",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slībiʀi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slibī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slībidi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
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"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slībum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
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"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slibum",
"source": "inflection",
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"first-person",
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slībid",
"source": "inflection",
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"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
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"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slīband",
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"plural",
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]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
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"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slībē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
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"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slibī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slībēs",
"source": "inflection",
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"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slībē",
"source": "inflection",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slibī",
"source": "inflection",
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"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slībēm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slibīm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slībēþ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slibīd",
"source": "inflection",
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"past",
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"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slībēn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slibīn",
"source": "inflection",
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]
},
{
"form": "slīb",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slībid",
"source": "inflection",
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"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slībandī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sliban",
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"past"
]
}
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],
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"lang_code": "gmw-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/slīban",
"pos": "verb",
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{
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"to split, divide"
],
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],
[
"divide",
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],
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},
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],
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"Brill Publishers",
"Nicoline van der Sijs"
],
"word": "slīban"
}
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