norse_search
Look an Old Norse word up
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Look an Old Norse word up on Wiktionary and return its senses plus full
declension/conjugation tables — attested content (including the verbs'
mediopassive voice), not invented. Any form of the word works; an
inflected query is resolved to its lemma automatically via previously
cached paradigms and the result notes the resolution. With
search_language='eng' the query is an English word instead: the result
lists its per-sense Old Norse equivalents (the translations block) plus
their expanded entries. Returns Markdown plus the same result as
structuredContent matching the declared outputSchema.
Results are cached server-side; first-time queries reach the live upstream
politely and calls are rate limited — on a rate-limit error, wait a few
seconds and retry. Content is from en.wiktionary.org (CC BY-SA 4.0 —
attribute and share alike if republished).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | The word to look up, in the language search_language names. Old Norse (default): a SINGLE Old Norse word, any form — an inflected form ('mǫnnum') is resolved to its lemma ('maðr') automatically via cached paradigms, and the result says so; diacritics are optional once a paradigm is cached ('madr' and 'mathr' both find maðr, 'monnum' finds mǫnnum). English (search_language='eng'): the English word whose Old Norse equivalents you want — multiword entries like 'apple tree' work. |
| search_language | any | no | Language the query word is in: 'non' (default) looks the Old Norse word up directly; 'eng' finds the Old Norse equivalents of an English word (per-sense, from Wiktionary's translation tables) and returns their full entries. Glosses are in English either way. |
| include_forms | boolean | no | When true (default), each match's full declension/conjugation table is returned INLINE — usable cases/tenses (and the verbs' mediopassive voice) in ONE call, no follow-up norse_get_inflections. Set false for a cheap screen of which entries exist. Bounded by a per-search cap — use max_forms to adjust per call. For eng queries this governs the expanded Old Norse entries; the per-sense translations list itself is always returned. |
| max_forms | any | no | Optional override for how many inflection tables to expand this call (0–12). On an uncached query each table is one politely paced upstream fetch, so high values on cold queries are slow. Omit for the server default. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"SearchLanguage": {
"description": "The query language. ``non`` looks an Old Norse word up directly (any of its\nforms — an inflected query resolves via cached paradigms). ``eng`` searches in\nreverse: the English Wiktionary page for the query word lists per-sense Old\nNorse translations, and each distinct lemma is then looked up normally.",
"enum": [
"non",
"eng"
],
"title": "SearchLanguage",
"type": "string"
}
},
"properties": {
"query": {
"description": "The word to look up, in the language search_language names. Old Norse (default): a SINGLE Old Norse word, any form — an inflected form ('mǫnnum') is resolved to its lemma ('maðr') automatically via cached paradigms, and the result says so; diacritics are optional once a paradigm is cached ('madr' and 'mathr' both find maðr, 'monnum' finds mǫnnum). English (search_language='eng'): the English word whose Old Norse equivalents you want — multiword entries like 'apple tree' work.",
"maxLength": 80,
"minLength": 1,
"title": "Query",
"type": "string"
},
"search_language": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/SearchLanguage",
"default": "non",
"description": "Language the query word is in: 'non' (default) looks the Old Norse word up directly; 'eng' finds the Old Norse equivalents of an English word (per-sense, from Wiktionary's translation tables) and returns their full entries. Glosses are in English either way."
},
"include_forms": {
"default": true,
"description": "When true (default), each match's full declension/conjugation table is returned INLINE — usable cases/tenses (and the verbs' mediopassive voice) in ONE call, no follow-up norse_get_inflections. Set false for a cheap screen of which entries exist. Bounded by a per-search cap — use max_forms to adjust per call. For eng queries this governs the expanded Old Norse entries; the per-sense translations list itself is always returned.",
"title": "Include Forms",
"type": "boolean"
},
"max_forms": {
"anyOf": [
{
"maximum": 12,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Optional override for how many inflection tables to expand this call (0–12). On an uncached query each table is one politely paced upstream fetch, so high values on cold queries are slow. Omit for the server default.",
"title": "Max Forms"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"title": "norse_searchArguments",
"type": "object"
}