aeg

‘time’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	time
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,218
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,218

The counts in this table cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; all are word occurrences, except the KR figure in the By corpus row, which counts poems and is not part of the total.

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Attested wordforms

aega, aeg, aiga, ajal, aigu, ajaks, ajad, aig, aigo, aige, aegu, ajast, aigud, ajale, ajaga, ajani, aegas, aokene, aegus, aigeesse, aeva, aigust, aegadella, aiku, aegudella, aeges, aegusida, aiguseksi, aeasid, aegadel, aola, aegade, aigasida, ajasse, aegadeksi, aeasi, aegasid, aigute, ajana, aosta … and 41 more of 81 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.

EKSS

aeg · aja 24

1. lõputu, piiramatu kestus, lõputult voolavad tunnid, päevad, aastad jne
2. (umbmääraselt v. lähemalt, konkreetselt) piiratud kestus, vältus, ajalõik, -vahemik, -järk
3. kasutada olev, millekski ettenähtud, kuluv jne. ajalõik
4. (millekski sobiv, õige, määratud jne.) hetk, (aja)moment

(+3)

EMS

aeg

aeg kui niisugune (lähemalt piiritlemata)
teat periood, ajajärk
teat ajalooperiood
(minevikust, olevikust, tulevikust)

(+19)

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut

English words in the AI translations

How often the AI analysis used each English word when it translated the uses of this word. Forms of one English word are counted together, and one translation can contain several words, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.

English word	Uses	Share
time (times, time's)	9,934	95.9%
drive	184	1.8%
during	156	1.5%
little	100	1.0%
until	59	0.6%
sick	49	0.5%
dawn	20	0.2%
age	19	0.2%
pain	19	0.2%
under	18	0.2%
Uses counted	10,361

Example verses

vanal ajal oli vaar (AES, MT 33, 15) read in context
in olden days there was an elder.
kohe joht viid viidä aig (AES, MT 40, 6 (8)) read in context
There passed five, five times,
tema aeg on ammu tulla (AES, MT 43, 59) read in context
His time to come is long past,
aaderd aige annele (AES, MT 43, 88) read in context
Adorn the occasion for Anne,
mul ei olõ aigu sukugi (AES, MT 64, 29) read in context
I have no time even for a sock,
päeval põle aiga veerdä (AES, MT 70, 35) read in context
The day has no time to linger.
kui talvel kangel külma ajal (AES, MT 76, 19/20 (11)) read in context
When in winter’s harsh cold time,
oh sa armas kallis aeg (AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5)) read in context
Oh, you dear precious time,

Companion words

Words that co-occur with this lemma inside the same verse line more often than chance predicts, ranked by log-likelihood (G²) over verse-level co-occurrence in SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB; only pairs seen at least 3 times.

Word	Association (G²)	Co-occurrences
igav	2,703	302
arvama	1,753	319
kallis	1,361	406
viitma	1,340	137
ood	1,147	118
astuma	1,078	273
andma	1,070	397
ammu	947	201

Song types

Song types of the poems attesting this lemma, as catalogued per poem in the source corpora (ERAB type names are in Estonian, SKVR names in Finnish; JR and KR poems carry no song-type record).

Song type	Poems
Lunastatav neiu	91
Tule mulle	61
Tule mulle!	61
Tähemõrsja	58
Kubjas, lase lõunale!	55
Salme	54
Harja otsimine	51
Kuningamäng	50

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Setumaa	370
Kuusalu	183
Haljala	150
Karksi	128
Paistu	117
Kolga-Jaani	116
Viljandi	109
Ambla	106
Tõstamaa	101
Tarvastu	94

Attestation over time

Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	11
1840–1849	3
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	36
1870–1879	323
1880–1889	1,054
1890–1899	1,241
1900–1909	308
1910–1919	329
1920–1929	463
1930–1939	571
1940–1949	40

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	133
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	122
Karl Viljak	114
Oskar Philipp Kallas	108
koguja teadmata	92

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,693)

ERAB: AES, MT 33, 15, AES, MT 40, 6 (8), AES, MT 43, 59, AES, MT 43, 88, AES, MT 64, 29, AES, MT 70, 35, AES, MT 76, 19/20 (11), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 76, 34/5 (6), AES, MT 117, 55/6 (8), AES, MT 117, 57 (10), AES, MT 137, 20/1 (2), AES, MT 141, 3, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 174, 42/3, AES, MT 174, 45, AES, MT 183, 14, AES, MT 186, 110, AES MT 210, 9/11, AES, MT 222, 30/1, AES, MT 230, 11/2, AES, MT 257, 8/10, AES, MT 257, 23/5, ARS 1, 419 (1), ARS 1, 444/5 (3), ARS 1, 519/23 (1), ARS 1, 527/31 (1), ARS 1, 808 (3), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), E A 10 (14), E A 31 (13), E A 47/8 (88), E A 94, E A 100, E A 106 (11), E A 115 (185), E A 117/9 (2), E A 121/2 (5), E A 122/4 (6), E A 178/80 (4), E A 198/9 (4), E A 199/200 (5), E A 210 (6), E A 303/7, E A 329/30 (15), E A 372/3 (1), E A 384/3 (13), E A 405 (12), E A 477/81 (2), E A 481/2 (3), E A 484/8, E A 487/9, E A 497/9, E A 501/3, E A 505/6, E A 507/10, E A 523/6, E A 527/30, E A 532/4

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: aika

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About this profile

The counts and examples on this page come from the lemmatized text of four Finnic runosong corpora: SKVR, JR, KR and ERAB. The table of English words comes from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.

The table of English words is counted from the translations kept in the AI analysis files, which hold only the most frequent translations of each word or spelling, so rare translations can be missing. Words that carry only grammar (such as the, to or didn’t) are left out, and so are English words used fewer than 5 times or in less than 0.1% of the uses counted. The analysis files can group two closely related words, which then show the same table.

Verses are found by the spellings listed above, so an occasional verse may show a different word spelled the same way.