arm

‘mercy’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	mercy
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	4,745
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 4,745

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

armu, arm, armud, armi, armust, armid, armuga, armuta, armul, armule, armusida, armus, armusid, armile, armõhõni, armult, armulõ, armilõ, armõrõni, armusi, armudele, armula, armel, armele, armuks, armil, armoga, armusta, armille, armehenni, armije, armit, armole, armulda, arrmu, harmid, armaalt, armaasse, armakesel, armude … and 35 more of 75 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

arm · -i 22

paranenud koekahjustuse (hrl. haava) jälg

arm · -u 22

1. (üleolev) heatahtlikkus, armulikkus; soosing
2. karistuse kergendus v. tühistus; andeksand, halastus

EMS

arm

(haava)arm
vorp
sälk, sisselõige, soon

arm

ristpalk tuuliku peas, mille külge kinnituvad tiivad
veski, lõikusmasina jne tiib
käärpuude, kerilaudade, võimasina jne pöörlev(ad) ristpuu(d) (koos nende külge kinnituva raamistikuga)
vesiratta laba

(+8)

Idamurre

arm

sälk

arm

ristpuu

Seto

arm

armu `armu armulikkus, headus kiä kui ańd, keɫ kui arm näüdäśs

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
mercy (mercy's, mercies)	1,866	44.7%
love (loves, love's, loved)	1,271	30.4%
grace (grace's)	475	11.4%
dear	375	9.0%
beloved (beloveds)	75	1.8%
scar (scars)	47	1.1%
armi	32	0.8%
lover (lovers)	20	0.5%
arm (arms)	17	0.4%
Uses counted	4,178

Example verses

irmu kakk ja armu kakk (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
Owl of terror and owl of grace,
armu aste aknaasta (AES, MT 34, 1/3) read in context
Grace stepped from the window,
imä armul astumada (AES, MT 40, 14/6 (18)) read in context
To step mercifully, mother.
armu astõ akõnist (AES, MT 44, 1) read in context
The dear ones stepped from the windows,
et põle armi otsa saand (AES, MT 66, 8/8) read in context
so she wouldn’t meet life’s end,
toine üttel armu armu (AES, MT 141, 5) read in context
The second said: "Mercy, mercy,"
irmu kakku armu kakku (AES, MT 152, 3/6) read in context
Charm’s cuckoo, love’s cuckoo,
armu üles ajavata (AES, MT 205, 11/6) read in context
Love driving upward.

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
andma	1,739	410
aiateivas	1,307	122
aken	1,027	163
astuma	974	201
aed	910	191
andja	599	73
tõttu	593	99
ajama	549	166

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
Ema haual	246
Ema ja armud	116
Kaasa kaugel	84
Vara vaeslapseks	79
Ema arm	55
Vara vaeseks	50
Noorik kodu käimas	42
Kodu käimas	31

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	127
Paistu	88
Tarvastu	75
Karksi	74
Viljandi	69
Halliste	63
Helme	59
Tõstamaa	57
Kolga-Jaani	57
Urvaste	55

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	15
1840–1849	1
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	25
1870–1879	173
1880–1889	466
1890–1899	609
1900–1909	151
1910–1919	151
1920–1929	225
1930–1939	244
1940–1949	19

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
koguja teadmata	52
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	52
Joosep Hurt	42
Jaan Sandra	36
Oskar Philipp Kallas	33

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,237)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 34, 1/3, AES, MT 40, 14/6 (18), AES, MT 44, 1, AES, MT 66, 8/8, AES, MT 141, 5, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 31, AES, MT 205, 32/3, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES MT 210, 15/20, AES, MT 236, 55/6, AES, MT 262, 15, AES, MT 283, 6/8 (2), ARS 1, 496/9 (9), ARS 1, 647 (1), ARS 1, 810 (5), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 2, 593 (1, 2), ARS 2, 602 (10), E A 128/9 (3), E A 148 (2), E A 274/5 (35), E A 303/7, E A 521/2 (10), E A 564/5 (24), E A 635 (6), E A 637/9 (8), E A 644/6 (16), E A 812/3 (2), E A 883/4 (8), E A 1002 (2), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 136-138, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 143-144, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 4/7p-4/8, EKmS 4° 1, 125 (191), EKmS 4° 1, 134/5 (208), EKmS 4° 1, 171 (267), EKmS 4° 1, 212/3 (36), EKmS 4° 1, 286, EKmS 4° 1, 433/4 (38), EKmS 4° 1, 505/6 (3), EKmS 4° 1, 549/50 (10), EKmS 4° 2, 93/4 (6), EKmS 4° 2, 224 (4b), EKmS 4° 2, 321/2 (30), EKmS 4° 2, 368 (80), EKmS 4° 2, 374/6 (89), EKmS 4° 2, 422/3 (130), EKmS 4° 2, 440/1 (5), EKmS 4° 2, 445 (13), EKmS 4° 2, 602 (36), EKmS 4° 2, 732/3 (15), EKmS 4° 2, 740/1 (24), EKmS 4° 2, 741/3 (25a), EKmS 4° 2, 752 (32), EKmS 4° 2, 804 (123), EKmS 4° 2, 807 (130), EKmS 4° 3, 3/10 (1)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: armo

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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.