sanapohjan
Sanapohja is a term used in Finnish linguistics to refer to the base form or stem of a word—the form to which inflectional endings are attached and from which related forms are built. In many analyses the sanapohja represents the underlying morpheme carrying the core semantic content, before suffixes and other affixes are added.
In practice, sanapohja is closely related to what is often called the lemma or dictionary form, but
Identification of the sanapohja is a tool in both education and computational linguistics. For language learners,
Example: for the word kissan (genitive of kissa, “cat”), the sanapohja is commonly taken as kissa. For