äiti

‘mother’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	mother
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	6,395
By corpus	SKVR 2,685, JR 3,709, KR 190 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

äiti, äitin, äitini, äidin, äitis, äitiä, äitii, äitinsä, äitisi, äitiseni, äit, äidiltänsä, äidille, äiren, äitins, äitille, äitiltänsä, äites, äitiäni, äidillensä, äitiin, äitillensä, äitipä, äidi, äidiltä, äidilleni, äitisikö, äitiis, äitiltä, äitiltäni, äidit, äitilleni, äitillä, äitisä, äitees, äitimme, äitilleen, äitistä, äirin, äitijä … and 183 more of 223 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
mother (mother's, mothers, mothers')	11,963	99.1%
earth	83	0.7%
mom	33	0.3%
land	30	0.2%
old	23	0.2%
woman	23	0.2%
Uses counted	12,070

Example verses

emo kieldi äidi käski (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
Mother forbade, mother urged,
isä käski äiti kielti (SKVR I1 101.) read in context
Father ordered, mother forbade:
äiti kielti vaimo käski (SKVR I1 102.) read in context
Mother forbade, wife urged,
äidizeni vanhembani (SKVR I1 154.) read in context
"O my aged mother!
sulasuini äitin poika (SKVR I1 200.) read in context
äitipä nyt vastoavi (SKVR I1 210.) read in context
The mother now responded:
rakas äiti armollini (SKVR I1 216.) read in context
Dear mother, my merciful one,
veisin äitillä sulihi (SKVR I1 276.) read in context

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
isä	6,673	1,125
rakas	5,589	662
armollinen	4,047	448
tappaa	1,091	235
nähdä	918	270
ämpäri	899	112
armo	636	125
kulta	533	225

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
Pakeneva	141
Verensulku	96
Lunastettava neito	95
Tiedusteluja ja pyyntöjä leppäkertulle	83
Aa aa allin lasta	66
Raudan sanat	59
Tulen sanat	59
Raudan synty	55

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Vuokkiniemi	139
Kemi	123
Suistamo	95
Ilomantsi	89
Alatornio	78
Rovaniemi	65
Saarijärvi	63
Kivennapa	61
Leppävirta	53
Nurmes	52

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	3
1670–1679	1
1690–1699	6
1700–1709	6
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	5
1760–1769	3
1780–1789	14
1800–1809	5
1810–1819	27
1820–1829	67
1830–1839	158
1840–1849	243
1850–1859	177
1860–1869	38
1870–1879	79
1880–1889	375
1890–1899	278
1900–1909	317
1910–1919	551
1920–1929	184
1930–1939	1,091
1940–1949	209
1950–1959	358
1960–1969	375
1970–1979	4

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys	299
Elias Lönnrot	266
Frans Kärki	152
Kaarle Krohn	121
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari	110

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,582)

SKVR: SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 276., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 322., SKVR I1 325., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 422., SKVR I1 635., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I1 erill. [Väin. tuomio] 1., SKVR I2 724., SKVR I2 730., SKVR I2 744 b)., SKVR I2 758., SKVR I2 767., SKVR I2 773., SKVR I2 787., SKVR I2 791., SKVR I2 791 a)., SKVR I2 792., SKVR I2 800., SKVR I2 834., SKVR I2 845., SKVR I2 849., SKVR I2 850., SKVR I2 927., SKVR I2 1000., SKVR I2 1007., SKVR I2 1014., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1024., SKVR I2 1025., SKVR I2 1027., SKVR I2 1098., SKVR I2 1103., SKVR I2 1103 a)., SKVR I2 1103 b)., SKVR I2 1103 c)., SKVR I2 1107., SKVR I2 1118., SKVR I2 1119., SKVR I2 1120., SKVR I2 1158., SKVR I2 1210., SKVR I2 1272., SKVR I3 1277., SKVR I3 1286., SKVR I3 1290., SKVR I3 1299., SKVR I3 1300., SKVR I3 1301.

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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.