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‘give’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	give
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	29,130
By corpus	SKVR 17,054, JR 12,076, KR 692 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

anna, annan, anto, antoi, antaa, annas, annat, anno, annoin, annettiin, annoi, annetaan, annoit, annettii, annon, anneta, annettu, annetaa, antakaa, antant, antoo, annammo, annetahan, annettihin, annettava, annam, antanut, antajaista, annettavan, antajani, andoi, annapa, annetah, annettuna, annot, antamaan, annatko, antamahan, antais, antaisin … and 640 more of 680 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
give (gave, given, gives, giving)	33,698	92.7%
let (let's, lets)	1,861	5.1%
giver (givers, giver's)	369	1.0%
anna (anna's, annas)	239	0.7%
allow (allowed)	78	0.2%
grant (grants, granted, granting)	74	0.2%
gift (gifts, gift's, gifting)	51	0.1%
Uses counted	36,336

Example verses

anto vanha väinämöinen (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Old Väinämöinen gave,
anna sie tappuran ajoa (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
Let me chase this fight,
äsen annan anniseni (SKVR I1 6.) read in context
"I give my voice to Anninen,"
annan neijen palkoistasi (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Give a maiden as your reward."
annan neijen palkoistasi (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
I'll give maidens from your rewards."
ando kokkoja nenähi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
"Struck the eagle's beak;"
siidä annan tuttäreni (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
mitäs annat palkosta (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"What will you give as reward,

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
en	6,750	2,098
käsi	2,998	1,739
jyvä	2,706	580
rauha	2,454	497
rautahammas	2,414	367
harjas	2,402	388
ainoa	1,940	439
armo	1,698	411

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	395
Lapsen maitohampaan lähtiessä	248
Poudan sanat	202
Kukon ja kanan saunamatka	194
Iivana Kojosenpoika	166
Myyty neito	145
Kilpalaulanta	138
Lemminkäisen virsi	137

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	842
Vuokkiniemi	509
Suistamo	501
Soikkola	495
Lempaala	331
Ilomantsi	252
Sakkola	225
Suojärvi	213
Vuole	209
Uhtua	194

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1560–1569	1
1610–1619	1
1650–1659	1
1670–1679	2
1680–1689	1
1690–1699	22
1700–1709	22
1710–1719	1
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	12
1760–1769	6
1770–1779	9
1780–1789	62
1800–1809	13
1810–1819	78
1820–1829	169
1830–1839	597
1840–1849	1,028
1850–1859	1,017
1860–1869	163
1870–1879	371
1880–1889	1,927
1890–1899	1,464
1900–1909	1,230
1910–1919	1,839
1920–1929	619
1930–1939	3,104
1940–1949	552
1950–1959	592
1960–1969	751
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	1,024
Volmari Porkka	580
Kaarle Krohn	432
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	378
D. E. D. Europaeus	339

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 15,697)

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: andma

← andma arm →

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.