ajama

‘drive’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	drive
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	13,755
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 13,755

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

aja, ajas, ajama, ajada, aeti, aasin, ajasin, ajab, aetud, aage, aame, ajavad, aama, ajage, ajame, ajanud, ajamaie, ajasid, ajagu, ajamahe, ajand, ajate, ajja, aades, aetakse, ajades, ajave, aeta, aeasin, ajanu, aagu, aeama, ajasi, ajamata, ajaksin, aetaks, aand, ajai, ajamada, aeame … and 98 more of 138 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

ajama · aetakse, aetud 37

1. teat. suunas v. kuhugi liikuma sundima; (kuhugi) midagi tegema sundima; tagant kihutama, kannustama
2. end, oma keha v. mõnd kehaosa teat. suunas, kuhugipoole liigutama, teat. asendisse viima jne
3. ka impers
4. midagi v. kedagi mingisugusesse olukorda, seisundisse viima v. mingisuguseks muutma

(+12)

EMS

ajama

kuhugi või mingis suunas minema sundima, saatma, suunama; midagi tegema sundima; tagant kihutama
(minema, eemale) kihutama, peletama
hobust minema sundima; hobust, hobusõidukit juhtima
jälgede või lõhna abil kellegi asukohta selgitama; ees kihutama, jooksutama; jälitama, kätte saada püüdes või otsides järgnema

(+87)

Idamurre

ajama

niitma

Seto

ajama

tagant kihutama, kuhugi liikuma sundima latsõ `aiva hobõsit `nurmõ

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut · Idamurde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut · Seto 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
drive (drove, driven, drives, driving)	9,619	85.7%
time (time's)	911	8.1%
chase (chased)	476	4.2%
put	51	0.5%
let	48	0.4%
tell	48	0.4%
make	46	0.4%
play	39	0.3%
send (sent)	37	0.3%
Uses counted	11,227

Example verses

kes karja koju ajab (AES, MT 3, 3 (7)) read in context
Who drives the cattle home?
ajas kaare kaunikese (AES, MT 3, 7 (23)) read in context
Drove the arc splendidly,
aja ääre allitama (AES, MT 3, 10 (31)) read in context
Drive her to drip at the edge,
alt aga ajasin alli rauad (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
From below, I drove the plowhorse's irons,
ajas kaare kaunikese (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
Arranged the lovely arch,
uosta uovi juo ajada (AES, MT 3, 21/2) read in context
To drive the door along the threshold again,
taga seila ajamaie (AES, MT 3, 25) read in context
For chasing down prey.
hallald atra ajama (AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9)) read in context
To drive the plow from Hallald/frost.

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
kari	2,835	694
asi	1,751	291
vagu	1,678	269
taga	1,442	398
jutt	1,291	248
hall	1,133	324
vile	905	135
habe	864	129

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
Venna sõjalugu	178
Haned kadunud	137
Sõjalaul	118
Kaevul kosija	111
Suude sulg	111
Tütarde tapja	111
Must naine	107
Mardilaul	99

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	364
Haljala	346
Kuusalu	265
Kolga-Jaani	254
Ambla	243
Paistu	192
Kadrina	191
Tõstamaa	179
Väike-Maarja	177
Karksi	175

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	10
1830–1839	3
1840–1849	7
1850–1859	7
1860–1869	79
1870–1879	545
1880–1889	1,994
1890–1899	2,243
1900–1909	506
1910–1919	702
1920–1929	666
1930–1939	813
1940–1949	73

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	319
Karl Viljak	256
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	205
Oskar Philipp Kallas	152
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	147

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,113)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 3 (7), AES, MT 3, 7 (23), AES, MT 3, 10 (31), AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 21/2, AES, MT 3, 25, AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9), AES, MT 40, 10 (14), AES, MT 40, 11/2 (16), AES, MT 40, 19 (22), AES, MT 43, 66, AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3), AES, MT 49, 17/8 (7), AES, MT 54, 5/8 (8), AES, MT 60, 35/6 (24), AES, MT 62, 18/9, AES, MT 64, 32/3, AES, MT 76, 8/9 (1), AES, MT 76, 31 (3), AES, MT 88, 35, AES, MT 88, 36/7, AES, MT 102, 25 (1), AES, MT 117, 57/8 (11), AES, MT 117, 69 (32), AES, MT 141, 26a/26b, AES, MT 163, 3/4 (2), AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 171, 28/9 (2), AES, MT 174, 44, AES, MT 183, 13, AES, MT 187, 36/7, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 31/2, AES MT 208, 20/1, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES MT 210, 15/20, AES, MT 217, 1/2, AES, MT 219, 15, AES, MT 219, 19, AES, MT 222, 30/1, AES, MT 236, 43/4, AES, MT 259, 1/6, AES, MT 262, 5, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 519/23 (1), ARS 1, 525 (1), ARS 1, 629/31 (1), ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 868 (6), ARS 1, 900 (2), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), E A 9 (13), E A 11 (17), E A 19 (1), E A 21/2 (5), E A 24/5 (6), E A 29 (9)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: ajaa

← ajaa akka →

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.