How to stem adjectives that end with y

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I want to know how to stem adjectives that end with y (english). For example I want a search of "funky song" to match "funk song" higher than "random song". How do I do that? I have tried a few out-of-the-box stemmers but they are not doing it. So what do you guys do? Or am I doing something wrong and the out-of-the-box stemmers should be handling this?

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I believe that stemmer or snowball should work.

What does the analyze API is returning ?

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Analyzing funky returns:
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/main_search/_analyze' -d ' { "analyzer" : "snowball_analyzer", "text" : "funky" }' {"tokens":[{"token":"funki","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5,"type":"<ALPHANUM>","position":0}]}

and analyzing funk returns:

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/main_search/_analyze' -d ' { "analyzer" : "snowball_analyzer", "text" : "funk" }' {"tokens":[{"token":"funk","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4,"type":"<ALPHANUM>","position":0}]}

Using stemmer instead of snowball does the same thing.

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Indeed terms are differents. Not sure why.
May be funk means something else in English than funky?

May be snowball would produce better results?

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.html

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This happens also with leak and leaky and both words are used in documents I am indexing :frowning: I'll try the snowball filter and not the analyzer and post the results.

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Ok, thanks for the suggestion! The Lovins language snowball filter works. Thanks

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