RunoVerse

Lemma Ambiguity Explorer

Explore how wordforms map to multiple candidate lemmas in the Finnic runosong corpus.

What this shows

Every wordform in the corpus can potentially be the surface form of multiple lemmas (dictionary headwords). For example, the wordform "laulu" could be a genitive of "laul" (song) or a partitive of "laulu". This page lets you explore that morphological ambiguity.

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Most ambiguous wordforms: a static overview

Many spellings in the runosong corpora (SKVR, KR, JR, ERAB) can belong to several different lemmas. The wordforms below have the most competing dictionary readings; the number after each lemma is its attestation count for that spelling.

This is a static summary — the full, searchable dataset is in the interactive explorer above.