See fyr in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
[
"funi",
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],
[
"*fōr",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fōr"
],
[
"*ph₂wṓr",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ph₂wṓr"
],
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"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/péh₂wōr"
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19
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