ei
‘not’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish verb
| English gloss | not |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 219,994 |
| By corpus | SKVR 81,635, JR 55,521, KR 3,386 poems, ERAB 85,692 |
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
ei, es, eipä, ep, ej, eivät, eihän, etpä, eip, engä, eihä, emme, eij, õi, elköön, eis, ethän, eb, enhän, etpäs, ed, eig, eibä, eppäs, eijoo, eä, eipäs, eppä, älköhön, ejpä, nei, eib, etko, eibo, eng, etp, engös, eijjoo, eiväd, eei … and 159 more of 199 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
ei · adv kõnek
- 1. öeldisverbi juurde kuuluv eitussõna, annab kogu lausele eitava sisu
- 2. üldisem, ilma verbita esinev eitussõna
- 3. annab üksnes järgnevale sõnale eitava sisu v. rõhutab seda; sün. hrl. mitte
- 4. esineb sisult jaatavates lausetes
ei · 14
- "ei^"-sõna, "ei^"-otsus; eitav, negatiivne otsus
EMS
ei
- (predikaatverbi ees või järel; sag koos mõne teise eitussõnaga)
- (eitust rõhutavalt predikaatverbist lahus)
- (koos &ema;da&eml;-infinitiiviga) mitte
- (koos käskiva kõneviisiga) ära, mitte
ei-
Idamurre
ei
- ei (eitussõnana)
- ei (eitusverbina)
ei
Seto
ei
- avida jumalaraamat eip‿pühä sõ̭ na, no‿m `põrgo poolõ mineḱ
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 |
|---|---|---|
| not | 165,643 | 95.6% |
| indeed | 573 | 0.3% |
| ei | 293 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 173,192 |
Example verses
- ei se itku naisen itku (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
That's no woman's weeping, - eibä löuvä väinämöistä (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
Did not find Väinämöinen. - läksi kuiteng ei totellut (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
(He left without heeding - ei ollut sidä metsässä (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
It was not in the forest. - ei anna orjale (AES, MT 3, 3 (7)) read in context
She gives nothing to the slave, - ei mina ketra ei mina ketra (AES, MT 3, 3 (8)) read in context
I will not spin, I will not spin, - pruut sie ei sallind mind (AES, MT 3, 5 (13)) read in context
The bride, she wouldn't receive me, - ei ole kodu meie neiud (AES, MT 3, 5 (14)) read in context
Our maidens are not at home,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| või | 7,685 | 3,511 |
| taha | 6,715 | 2,093 |
| tundma | 6,422 | 2,452 |
| miks | 5,634 | 2,016 |
| tohtima | 3,811 | 940 |
| mikään | 2,945 | 650 |
| tõusma | 2,903 | 1,904 |
| kukaan | 2,497 | 559 |
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 | 931 |
| Venna sõjalugu | 584 |
| Tule mulle! | 510 |
| Laulu võim | 504 |
| Tule mulle | 503 |
| Sõjalaul | 403 |
| Raudan sanat | 387 |
| Raudan synty | 374 |
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 | 2,121 |
| Kuusalu | 1,731 |
| Haljala | 1,506 |
| Lempaala | 1,356 |
| Karksi | 1,146 |
| Paistu | 1,065 |
| Soikkola | 1,060 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 1,009 |
| Suistamo | 931 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 902 |
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 | 2 |
| 1670–1679 | 2 |
| 1690–1699 | 30 |
| 1700–1709 | 93 |
| 1730–1739 | 5 |
| 1740–1749 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 12 |
| 1760–1769 | 8 |
| 1770–1779 | 16 |
| 1780–1789 | 133 |
| 1800–1809 | 27 |
| 1810–1819 | 249 |
| 1820–1829 | 493 |
| 1830–1839 | 1,491 |
| 1840–1849 | 4,107 |
| 1850–1859 | 2,920 |
| 1860–1869 | 652 |
| 1870–1879 | 3,251 |
| 1880–1889 | 12,426 |
| 1890–1899 | 13,451 |
| 1900–1909 | 4,965 |
| 1910–1919 | 5,499 |
| 1920–1929 | 4,039 |
| 1930–1939 | 8,744 |
| 1940–1949 | 1,365 |
| 1950–1959 | 1,077 |
| 1960–1969 | 1,102 |
| 1970–1979 | 8 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 3,881 |
| Volmari Porkka | 1,511 |
| Karl Viljak | 1,171 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 1,126 |
| A. D. Neovius | 1,076 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 68,342)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 6., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 8., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 10., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 12., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 36., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 57., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 59., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 82., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 a)., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 86.
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.
Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Estonian: emme
The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.
In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 83,345
Uses left out as another word: 138
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0
In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 74,384
Uses left out as another word: 0
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0