RunoVerse Lexicon — Finnic Runosong

RunoVerse is a digital explorer for 439,746 lemmas from 292,092 Finnic runosong (oral poetry) texts. Search lemmas, read poems with word-level glosses, compare poems and verses using five poem-level and five verse-level similarity algorithms, and explore the linguistic and cultural patterns of Finnic folk poetry.

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439,746 lemmas • 15.3M tokens

Lexicon

The vocabulary of the Finnic runosong corpora: 439,746 lemmas, their word forms, meanings and distribution across the collections.

SKVR - Finnish

JR - Finnish

KR - Literary Finnish

ERAB - Estonian

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How many lemmas have N total wordform occurrences

Annotation Confidence

DeepSeek annotation consistency across occurrences

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Lemmas by language based on corpus presence

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Lemma results from the Finnic runosong corpora
Lemma	Count	Forms	POS	Collections	TC	Word Forms

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