akka
‘old woman’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | old woman |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 9,795 |
| By corpus | SKVR 5,186, JR 4,609, KR 362 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
akka, akan, akat, akkani, akkansa, akkaa, akalle, akkoin, akkojen, akaksi, akoille, akoilta, akkoja, akalla, akkain, akasta, akoista, akku, akoilla, akalta, akaks, akk, acka, akatta, aka, akkoi, akalleen, akkoa, akal, akall, akkanin, akkapa, akkarin, akkoida, akallen, akoill, akkasa, akkata, aakkarin, akkaki … and 146 more of 186 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 |
|---|---|---|
| woman (women, woman's, women's) | 5,763 | 63.5% |
| old | 5,003 | 55.1% |
| hag (hag's, hags, hags') | 1,370 | 15.1% |
| wife (wife's, wives, wives') | 1,013 | 11.2% |
| crone (crone's, crones, crones') | 740 | 8.2% |
| grandmother | 51 | 0.6% |
| old_woman (old_women's) | 36 | 0.4% |
| akkari (akkari's) | 10 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 9,078 |
Example verses
- se on ainut väinämöisen akka (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
She, Väinämöinen's sole wife, - siid on aina pohjon akka (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
There, Pohjola’s hag - niin on akka pohjon akka (SKVR I1 3.) read in context
So the witch of Pohjola - pohjoilan sogie akka (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
The North's withered crone - joba tulou pohjon akka (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
"Already comes the North’s hag." - tuog oli puoli pohjon akka (SKVR I1 6.) read in context
"That was half of Pohjola’s crone," - tuog oli puoli pohjon akka (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
There was a Pohjola crone - herättäis pohjolan akan (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Awakening Pohjola's crone.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| vanha | 3,020 | 759 |
| pohja | 2,967 | 507 |
| kuolla | 2,674 | 525 |
| ukko | 2,387 | 513 |
| tappella | 1,457 | 187 |
| harvahammas | 1,353 | 134 |
| aa | 1,303 | 292 |
| lypsää | 1,246 | 220 |
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).
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 | 252 |
| Suistamo | 203 |
| Lempaala | 148 |
| Narvusi | 143 |
| Alatornio | 132 |
| Soikkola | 127 |
| Sakkola | 120 |
| Vuole | 115 |
| Ilomantsi | 107 |
| Suojärvi | 100 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 5 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 34 |
| 1800–1809 | 1 |
| 1810–1819 | 45 |
| 1820–1829 | 73 |
| 1830–1839 | 292 |
| 1840–1849 | 519 |
| 1850–1859 | 394 |
| 1860–1869 | 41 |
| 1870–1879 | 179 |
| 1880–1889 | 733 |
| 1890–1899 | 569 |
| 1900–1909 | 436 |
| 1910–1919 | 563 |
| 1920–1929 | 189 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,484 |
| 1940–1949 | 232 |
| 1950–1959 | 295 |
| 1960–1969 | 257 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 532 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 307 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 223 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 202 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 166 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,358)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 3., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 5., SKVR I1 6., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 27., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 36., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 55., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 65., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 74., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 90., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 113., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 159., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 226., SKVR I1 264., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 282.
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.