aika
‘time’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | time |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 7,194 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,603, JR 3,591, KR 455 poems, ERAB 0 |
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
aika, ajan, aikaa, ajalla, aikana, ajat, aikaan, aik, aikan, aikoja, ajaksi, ajoilla, aikani, ajall, aikanansa, aikoin, ajaksen, aigah, ajasta, aikojansa, aikansa, aikoinani, ajassa, aikahan, aikoina, aigoa, aikojani, aikanaan, aikasi, aikka, ajoill, aijaksilla, ajant, aijoille, aica, aikanen, aikuen, ajallansa, aigua, aikain … and 228 more of 268 attested forms
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 (time's, times, times') | 7,188 | 89.8% |
| during | 352 | 4.4% |
| drive | 301 | 3.8% |
| fence (fence's) | 150 | 1.9% |
| quite | 97 | 1.2% |
| old | 52 | 0.6% |
| very | 37 | 0.5% |
| Uses counted | 8,007 |
Example verses
- riudu rinnoin aijaksilla (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
Wrenched his chest on the anvil. - aivon aika huomenessa (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Early in the morning, - nousi aivan aika huomenesta (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Rose very early at dawn, - aivon aika huomenesta (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
At daybreak; - aivoin aika huomenessa (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
- ainapa aikoja menevi (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
Ages passed indeed, - nousi aivan aikasin (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Rose exceedingly early, - aivon aika huomenessa (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
Dawn-time in morning;
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 |
|---|---|---|
| paras | 1,422 | 364 |
| huomen | 811 | 113 |
| aivot | 781 | 114 |
| kaikki | 746 | 313 |
| antaa | 739 | 451 |
| kiire | 579 | 114 |
| lypsy | 566 | 60 |
| aivan | 538 | 140 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Lunastettava neito | 119 |
| Kalevanpojan kosto | 92 |
| Kalervo ja Untamo | 68 |
| Kissa kuoli kiireellä ajalla | 62 |
| Sijan tiedän, missä synnyin | 59 |
| Morsianta on odotettu | 51 |
| Sotamiehenotto | 51 |
| Toisin toisessa talossa | 49 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Narvusi | 268 |
| Lempaala | 163 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 155 |
| Soikkola | 119 |
| Vuole | 114 |
| Sakkola | 101 |
| Uhtua | 86 |
| Suistamo | 79 |
| Ilomantsi | 75 |
| Kaprio | 65 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1670–1679 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 14 |
| 1700–1709 | 18 |
| 1710–1719 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 5 |
| 1760–1769 | 7 |
| 1770–1779 | 7 |
| 1780–1789 | 31 |
| 1800–1809 | 8 |
| 1810–1819 | 39 |
| 1820–1829 | 67 |
| 1830–1839 | 313 |
| 1840–1849 | 501 |
| 1850–1859 | 472 |
| 1860–1869 | 73 |
| 1870–1879 | 131 |
| 1880–1889 | 521 |
| 1890–1899 | 469 |
| 1900–1909 | 411 |
| 1910–1919 | 330 |
| 1920–1929 | 96 |
| 1930–1939 | 589 |
| 1940–1949 | 128 |
| 1950–1959 | 112 |
| 1960–1969 | 145 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 556 |
| Volmari Porkka | 176 |
| A. D. Neovius | 119 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 117 |
| Fr. A. Saxbäck | 114 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,505)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 68., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 259., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 406., SKVR I1 410., SKVR I1 410 a)., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 535., SKVR I1 544., SKVR I1 544 a)., SKVR I1 546., SKVR I1 579 a)., SKVR I1 609., SKVR I1 615., SKVR I1 617., SKVR I1 621., SKVR I1 624., SKVR I1 630., SKVR I1 638., SKVR I1 641., SKVR I1 641 a)., SKVR I1 647., SKVR I1 657., SKVR I1 658., SKVR I1 664., SKVR I1 667., SKVR I1 672., SKVR I1 683 a)., SKVR I1 erill. [Sampo] 1., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 5., SKVR I2 759., SKVR I2 759 b)., SKVR I2 764., SKVR I2 766., SKVR I2 771.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: aeg
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.