ajaa
‘drive’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | drive |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 7,387 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,435, JR 2,952, KR 269 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
ajoi, ajo, ajoin, ajaa, ajeli, ajavi, ajon, ajaapi, ajjaa, ajamaan, ajamah, ajele, ajau, ajoit, ajetaan, ajanut, ajettiin, ajua, ajetah, ajamahan, ajaalla, ajeloo, ajoho, ajapi, ajamaa, ajaat, ajeltavaksi, ajoo, ajova, ajappa, ajant, ajaisin, ajaisi, ajak, ajais, ajetahan, ajoipa, ajaan, ajauve, ajeta … and 362 more of 402 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 |
|---|---|---|
| drive (drove, drives, driven, driving) | 9,454 | 95.8% |
| chase (chased, chases) | 180 | 1.8% |
| ride (rode) | 101 | 1.0% |
| intend (intends) | 59 | 0.6% |
| time (times) | 49 | 0.5% |
| plow (plowed) | 25 | 0.3% |
| while | 20 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 9,868 |
Example verses
- ajua karetteloubi (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Went hunting - ajua karettelovi (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
Driving his journey along - ajo vanha väinämöinen (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Old Väinämöinen rode - ajua karettelopi (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
Drove to chase, - ajua karettelouve (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
- ajau vanhan väinämöisen (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
Drove old Väinämöinen - läksin ajamah merehe (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
Set forth to sail the sea. - ajetahan kirjo korjin (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"Let's drive with bright sleds,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| aalto | 2,658 | 377 |
| ranta | 1,294 | 298 |
| kirkko | 1,231 | 313 |
| tie | 1,035 | 376 |
| karettaa | 1,008 | 128 |
| ylös | 1,003 | 175 |
| rampa | 971 | 143 |
| matka | 845 | 217 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Niukahduksen historiola | 264 |
| Niukahdus | 257 |
| Kalevanpojan kosto | 147 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 132 |
| Rutsa | 129 |
| Myyty neito | 114 |
| Kilpalaulanta | 111 |
| Tytärten hukuttaja | 96 |
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 | 406 |
| Soikkola | 231 |
| Lempaala | 217 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 191 |
| Suistamo | 167 |
| Vuole | 151 |
| Sakkola | 127 |
| Kaprio | 119 |
| Suojärvi | 106 |
| Moloskovitsa | 99 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1600–1609 | 1 |
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 5 |
| 1700–1709 | 11 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 4 |
| 1770–1779 | 4 |
| 1780–1789 | 31 |
| 1800–1809 | 2 |
| 1810–1819 | 54 |
| 1820–1829 | 84 |
| 1830–1839 | 263 |
| 1840–1849 | 503 |
| 1850–1859 | 530 |
| 1860–1869 | 71 |
| 1870–1879 | 265 |
| 1880–1889 | 869 |
| 1890–1899 | 667 |
| 1900–1909 | 466 |
| 1910–1919 | 362 |
| 1920–1929 | 103 |
| 1930–1939 | 653 |
| 1940–1949 | 179 |
| 1950–1959 | 158 |
| 1960–1969 | 130 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 424 |
| Volmari Porkka | 327 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 235 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 207 |
| A. A. Borenius | 200 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,437)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 27., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 94., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 104., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 110., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 117 a)., SKVR I1 117 c)., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 131., SKVR I1 135., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 146., SKVR I1 147., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 152., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 b)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 159., SKVR I1 162.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: ajama
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.