See brwyn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ipa": "/bruːɨ̯n/",
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"North-Wales"
]
},
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"South-Wales"
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{
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}
],
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"4": "",
"5": "stick"
},
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},
{
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"name": "der"
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{
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},
"expansion": "Old English brogne",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "brush"
},
"expansion": "English brush",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"tags": [
"singulative"
]
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"table-tags"
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"tags": [
"inflection-template"
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},
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"form": "brwyn",
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},
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"form": "frwyn",
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"tags": [
"soft"
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"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
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"name": "head"
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"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
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"_dis": "3 97",
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}
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"word": "cannwyll frwyn"
},
{
"english": "Eurasian blackcap",
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"word": "penddu'r brwyn"
}
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[
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"word": "hesg"
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{
"word": "pabwyr"
}
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"North-Wales"
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"South-Wales"
]
},
{
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}
],
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"Welsh feminine nouns",
"Welsh lemmas",
"Welsh masculine nouns",
"Welsh nouns",
"Welsh pluralia tantum",
"Welsh terms derived from Middle Welsh",
"Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
"Welsh terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Welsh terms inherited from Middle Welsh",
"Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "brón"
},
"expansion": "Irish brón",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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},
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"sorrow, sadness"
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"sorrow"
],
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"sadness"
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"North-Wales"
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},
{
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"tags": [
"South-Wales"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊɨ̯n"
}
],
"word": "brwyn"
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"Welsh feminine nouns",
"Welsh lemmas",
"Welsh nouns",
"Welsh pluralia tantum",
"Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
"Welsh terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
"cy:Materials",
"cy:Rushes",
"cy:Sadness"
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"derived": [
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"english": "rushlight",
"translation": "rushlight",
"word": "cannwyll frwyn"
},
{
"english": "Eurasian blackcap",
"translation": "Eurasian blackcap",
"word": "penddu'r brwyn"
}
],
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"1": "cy",
"2": "cel-pro",
"3": "*brīnika",
"4": "",
"5": "stick"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*bʰrugh-no-",
"t": "twig"
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"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰrugh-no- (“twig”)",
"name": "der"
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},
"expansion": "Old English brogne",
"name": "cog"
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"expansion": "English brush",
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}
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"etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *brīnika (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrugh-no- (“twig”), see also Old English brogne, perhaps related to the root of English brush.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "brwynen",
"tags": [
"singulative"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
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{
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"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
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]
},
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"form": "brwyn",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "frwyn",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"soft"
]
},
{
"form": "mrwyn",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
}
],
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"g": "f-p"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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],
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],
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},
{
"word": "pabwyr"
}
],
"tags": [
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"plural"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"North-Wales"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/brʊi̯n/",
"tags": [
"South-Wales"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊɨ̯n"
}
],
"word": "brwyn"
}
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{
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"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: brwyn/Welsh 'aspirate' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
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