RunoVerse

Dictionary Explorer

Cross-reference 64,399 runosong vocabulary entries across 5 Estonian dictionaries — definitions, dialect examples, regional variants, and compound decompositions.

What is this?

This page lets you explore how runosong vocabulary is documented across five major Estonian dictionaries. Each entry shows which dictionaries include the word, its definitions, dialectal variants, regional coverage, and example sentences from actual dialect recordings.

Dictionaries

EKSS (Eesti keele seletav sonaraamat) — the main Estonian explanatory dictionary, covering literary standard Estonian.
EMS (Eesti murrete sonaraamat) — the Estonian dialect dictionary, with regional variants and example sentences from parish recordings.
Idamurre — Eastern Estonian dialect dictionary with detailed regional coverage.
Seto — Seto dialect dictionary covering the Seto-Voru linguistic area.
Moistatuste — Dictionary of Estonian riddles and folk expressions.

Entry Types

Direct — the lemma was found directly in the dictionary headwords.
Compound — the lemma was matched via compound decomposition (e.g., "kuulinn" = "kuul" + "inn").
Gap-fill — the entry was added to fill a gap in the annotation data (previously missing from the lexicon).

Usage

Click any letter to browse entries starting with that letter. Use the search box for instant filtering. Click dictionary pills to filter by specific dictionaries. Click any entry row to expand its full details. Deep-link to any entry via ?lemma=word.