pohjasanan
Pohjasanan is a term used in Finnish linguistics to refer to a word’s base form, often equivalent to what is commonly called a lemma. It is the form from which inflected and derived forms are built, and it typically carries the core lexical meaning of the word. The form pohjasanan is the genitive of pohjasana, used when discussing the concept in prose.
In many cases the pohjasana coincides with the dictionary form of a word, but the exact relationship
The concept is used in lexicography, language teaching, and computational linguistics. Identifying the pohjasana enables dictionaries
Origin and terminology: pohja means base or foundation, and sana means word. The term highlights a foundational
See also: lemma, stem, root word, inflection, lemmatization, Finnish morphology.