eit
‘old woman’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun
| English gloss | old woman |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian |
| Total occurrences | 13,301 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 13,283 |
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
eit, eide, eite, eidel, eede, eidele, eidi, eided, eitsi, eidega, eidelt, eidelta, eid, eidelegi, eiti, eideta, eiten, eidu, eidid, eidest, eitve, eidekenne, eitede, eidit, eitte, eidave, eideda, eideks, eidella, eitessa, eitki, eitsil, eitsist, eidede, eideed, eideeksi, eideelta, eideksa, eideldä, eidelie … and 17 more of 57 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
eit · eide 23
- 1. eakas naine
- 2. abikaasa, naine
- 3. naine, naisterahvas
- 4. (hellitavalt) ema
EMS
eit
- vanem (abielu)naine; pereema
- naine, abikaasa
- ema
- vanaema
eit
Idamurre
eit
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
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 (woman's, women, women's) | 7,581 | 69.5% |
| old | 7,564 | 69.4% |
| mother (mother's, mothers) | 2,749 | 25.2% |
| wife (wife's, wives) | 371 | 3.4% |
| law (law's) | 155 | 1.4% |
| grandmother (grandmother's) | 57 | 0.5% |
| crone | 43 | 0.4% |
| granny | 21 | 0.2% |
| deny (denied) | 18 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 10,902 |
Example verses
- eks minu eit võind unta süöta (AES, MT 3, 8 (24)) read in context
Wouldn't my wife eat sleep, - eit saab kuulda taat saab kuulda (AES, MT 3, 11 (36)) read in context
Grandma will hear, Grandpa will hear, - vastas eite vastas taati (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
Mother answered, father answered: - eit läks eile einamalle (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
The old woman went to the hayfield yesterday, - kasva eidele esikust (AES, MT 3, 23) read in context
Grow for Grandma from the porch, - ollin enne eede kohal (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
I was once over Eden, - kui mina olin eide juures (AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2)) read in context
When I was at Mother's place, - eit oli vastas tuat oli vastas (AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4)) read in context
Wife faced me, father faced me
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 |
|---|---|---|
| taat | 7,794 | 1,170 |
| vaev | 2,044 | 398 |
| vastama | 1,904 | 278 |
| kostma | 1,880 | 451 |
| vastu | 1,718 | 555 |
| elama | 1,307 | 387 |
| haud | 1,218 | 277 |
| minema | 1,085 | 809 |
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 | 274 |
| Memme vaev | 189 |
| Kosjahobu söötmine | 133 |
| Arg laulik | 126 |
| Tütarde tapja | 110 |
| Põlvist põdema | 106 |
| Tõbine naine | 104 |
| Oma ema ja võõrasema ootavad koju | 98 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Kuusalu | 473 |
| Haljala | 295 |
| Ambla | 232 |
| Vigala | 198 |
| Kadrina | 196 |
| Jõhvi | 185 |
| Pärnu-Jaagupi | 172 |
| Harju-Jaani | 170 |
| Väike-Maarja | 156 |
| Märjamaa | 150 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 2 |
| 1830–1839 | 1 |
| 1840–1849 | 14 |
| 1850–1859 | 2 |
| 1860–1869 | 17 |
| 1870–1879 | 236 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,461 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,693 |
| 1900–1909 | 283 |
| 1910–1919 | 581 |
| 1920–1929 | 442 |
| 1930–1939 | 504 |
| 1940–1949 | 18 |
| 1950–1959 | 3 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 288 |
| Karl Viljak | 268 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 265 |
| Oskar Philipp Kallas | 234 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 208 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,557)
- ERAB: AES, MT 3, 8 (24), AES, MT 3, 11 (36), AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 3, 23, AES, MT 4, 1, AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 60, 33/5 (21), AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 76, 16/7 (9), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 32/3 (4), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 76, 35/6 (7), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 99, 8/10, AES, MT 141, 3, AES, MT 141, 6/7, AES, MT 141, 14, AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 141, 33, AES, MT 183, 13, AES, MT 219, 18, AES, MT 227, 38/40, AES, MT 230, 1/2, AES, MT 252, 6, ARS 1, 900 (1), E A 6 (7), E A 6/7 (8), E A 8/9 (12), E A 21 (4), E A 24/5 (6), E A 29 (9), E A 29/30 (10), E A 36 (59), E A 41 (68), E A 42 (71), E A 47/8 (88), E A 51/2 (97), E A 63 (114), E A 63/4 (116), E A 64/5 (118), E A 68/9 (126), E A 98, E A 152/3 (8), E A 197 (1), E A 207/8 (2), E A 213/4 (10), E A 214/5 (11), E A 222/1 (16), E A 233 (2), E A 244/8 (11), E A 251/2 (16), E A 255/6 (20), E A 257/8 (21), E A 262/4 (25), E A 264/7 (26)
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: äiti
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.