| WMDE-leszek added a comment. |
One of the longest words in an English dictionary is "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (34 characters).
General note: English is probably not the best language to look for in the context of long words (even German beats it easily).
In contract to Item labels, the lemma of a Lexeme is (by definition) a single word only.
I am not entirely sure to what conclusion this remark would lead us, but "single word" is pretty relative here. I imagine people might want to model things like idioms as lexemes, meaning there will be e.g. multi-word lemmas etc. That said, I guess 250 characters (i.e. Unicode characters, not bytes) seems like a good initial length limit. So your conclusion here seems reasonable to me.
If we feel like it should be investigated further though, it seems like we could fairly easily get some data from wiktionaries, and I would risk saying that data would give us a pretty good estimation of sizes of things people are going to put in as lexemes and lemmas.
A "word" is also not the most clear term from the linguistic point of view, BTW.
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