äi

‘father-in-law’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	father-in-law
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,930
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,927

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

äia, äi, äial, äiu, äiakene, äiad, äiale, äialt, äio, äiast, äialta, äija, äiäd, äiaks, äiaga, äialegi, häia, äiade, äiadele, äias, äiasta, äiol, äiadeksi, äiala, äialla, äiat, äiateksi, äissa, äiakane, äiaksa, äiap … and 5 more of 36 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

äi · äia 24

mehe- v. naiseisa

Idamurre

äi

vanaisa

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Idamurde sõnastik, 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
law (law's, laws)	6,837	96.9%
father (fathers, father's)	6,822	96.7%
dear	95	1.3%
little	39	0.6%
grandfather	36	0.5%
hush	16	0.2%
lull	14	0.2%
oh	12	0.2%
hushaby	8	0.1%
Uses counted	7,058

Example verses

sõitsin äia ukse ette (AES, MT 3, 5 (14)) read in context
I rode to the father-in-law's door,
sõitsin äia ukse ette (AES, MT 3, 19) read in context
I rode to the father-in-law's door,
äi tuli vasta ämm tuli vasta (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Father-in-law greets me, mother-in-law too,
äi ussi rotti karda ma (AES, MT 27, 34) read in context
The old snake, the rat, I shun
meil oo kulda äia tuuli kaske (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
We have gold from father-in-law’s wind, oh birch,
äiu äiu kussu kussu (AES, MT 43, 63) read in context
Hush, hush, where, where
äiu äiu kussu kussu (AES, MT 43, 65) read in context
Hush-a-bye, hush, whisper, whisper,
äiu äiu kõssu kõssu (AES, MT 57, 24) read in context
Hush, hush, rock, rock,

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
ämm	13,426	1,576
tere	1,869	368
särk	1,627	298
hästi	1,167	204
teretama	1,087	167
ära	1,076	428
härg	1,028	305
meel	965	282

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
Kaevul kosija	217
Petis peiu	100
Kosjahobu söötmine	87
Tule mulle	63
Tule mulle!	63
Isa- ja mehekodus	59
Hällilaul	58
Sõnakera	44

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Haljala	134
Ambla	110
Tõstamaa	95
Väike-Maarja	89
Karksi	85
Kuusalu	83
Pärnu-Jaagupi	77
Muhu	75
Paistu	74
Tarvastu	73

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	1
1860–1869	20
1870–1879	143
1880–1889	848
1890–1899	901
1900–1909	194
1910–1919	275
1920–1929	303
1930–1939	322
1940–1949	23

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	154
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	111
Karl Viljak	104
Oskar Philipp Kallas	88
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	63

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,238)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (3), AES, MT 3, 2 (5), AES, MT 3, 5 (14), AES, MT 3, 19, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 27, 34, AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 63, AES, MT 43, 65, AES, MT 57, 24, AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 15/7, AES, MT 141, 2/3, AES, MT 174, 44, AES, MT 183, 1, AES, MT 186, 109, AES MT 208, 19, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES, MT 261, 33/4, AES, MT 294, 33 (24), ARS 1, 735/8 (3), ARS 1, 820/1 (19), E A 5 (5), E A 29 (9), E A 31 (13), E A 32/3 (52), E A 39 (66), E A 63 (115), E A 97, E A 103 (16), E A 122/4 (6), E A 127/8 (2), E A 130/3 (5), E A 180/2 (5), E A 210/1 (8), E A 230, E A 230, E A 242/4 (10), E A 264/7 (26), E A 297/8 (11), E A 320/2 (8), E A 355 (1), E A 381 (12), E A 387/8, E A 565/6 (25), E A 571 (33), E A 624/5 (9), E A 722/5 (2), E A 728/30 (4), E A 780 (14), E A 785/6 (21b), E A 792/3 (3), E A 844/6 (8), E A 867/9 (13), E A 901 (6), E A 909/10 (15), E A 915/6 (29), E A 950 (14)

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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.