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"expansion": "A (first person singular, objective me, possessive ma, possessive pronoun mines, reflexive masel, emphatic I)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "pron",
"related": [
{
"word": "AI"
},
{
"word": "ik"
},
{
"word": "memei"
},
{
"word": "maselmysel"
},
{
"word": "mines"
},
{
"word": "mamy"
},
{
"word": "we"
},
{
"word": "us"
},
{
"word": "we'shus"
},
{
"word": "oorsels"
},
{
"word": "oorselwirsels"
},
{
"word": "wirsel"
},
{
"word": "oorswirs"
},
{
"word": "oorwir"
},
{
"word": "yeyou"
},
{
"word": "yow"
},
{
"word": "yerselyoursel"
},
{
"word": "yersyours"
},
{
"word": "yeryour"
},
{
"word": "thoo"
},
{
"word": "thee"
},
{
"word": "thysel"
},
{
"word": "theesel"
},
{
"word": "thines"
},
{
"word": "thy"
},
{
"word": "thees"
},
{
"word": "ye"
},
{
"word": "yeseyou"
},
{
"word": "youse"
},
{
"word": "yousetheer"
},
{
"word": "yeselsyoursels"
},
{
"word": "he"
},
{
"word": "e"
},
{
"word": "him"
},
{
"word": "im"
},
{
"word": "himsel"
},
{
"word": "hissel"
},
{
"word": "his"
},
{
"word": "is"
},
{
"word": "she"
},
{
"word": "her"
},
{
"word": "er"
},
{
"word": "hersel"
},
{
"word": "hers"
},
{
"word": "ithit"
},
{
"word": "itselhitsel"
},
{
"word": "itshits"
},
{
"word": "ane"
},
{
"word": "–"
},
{
"word": "ane's"
},
{
"word": "thay"
},
{
"word": "thaim"
},
{
"word": "thaimsel"
},
{
"word": "thaimsels"
},
{
"word": "thairs"
},
{
"word": "thair"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"I"
],
"links": [
[
"I",
"I"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "I"
},
{
"word": "ik"
}
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɑː/",
"tags": [
"stressed"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɑɪ/",
"tags": [
"stressed"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɛː/",
"tags": [
"Dundee"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ə/",
"tags": [
"unstressed"
]
}
],
"word": "A"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Scots dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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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