elama

‘live’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	live
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,004
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,004

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

ella, ellad, elada, elama, ellä, elli, elab, eluda, elas, elame, elasin, elan, ela, elavad, eläme, elädä, elades, elasid, eläde, elad, elaksin, eläminõ, elläd, elade, elanud, elate, ellake, elähünü, elanu, ellid, elagu, eläda, elled, elänü, elasi, elatud, elata, elaks, elänu, elässe … and 198 more of 238 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

elama · 37

1. elus olema, eksisteerima, olemas olema; ant. surnud olema
2. päev-päevalt kulgevast eluprotsessist osa võtma (hrl. täpsustatult elamise laadi, viisi, tingimuste vms. poolest)
3. elunema, asuma
4. millelegi pühendunud v. millestki haaratud olema

(+3)

EMS

elama

elama, elus olema;
(väga haigest või põdurast inimesest)
(aeglasest või uimasest inimesest)
(kehvast majanduslikust olukorrast)

(+12)

Idamurre

elama

elama

Seto

elämä

elama, elus olema pujakõnõ `eĺli ja paabakõnõ
ajaliselt eksisteerima

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
live (lived, lives, living)	8,791	90.2%
life (life's)	706	7.2%
alive	126	1.3%
let (let's)	27	0.3%
while	20	0.2%
dear	13	0.1%
long	12	0.1%
Uses counted	9,751

Example verses

küll oli ella küll oli kulla (AES, MT 3, 7 (23)) read in context
There was plenty of food, plenty of gold,
siis on ea elada (AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27)) read in context
Then there is life to live,
pää meil pää meil ellad vennad (AES, MT 3, 11 (38)) read in context
Our head, our head, living brothers,
viisin ella einamaale (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
I took her to the evening feast-land,
eeva ella mu minija (AES, MT 21, 10) read in context
Eeva, do not [harm] my daughter-in-law,
rühksid koolda ei elada (AES, MT 34, 1/3) read in context
You hastened to die, not to live,
tema elab mureta (AES, MT 36, 3/5) read in context
She lives carefree.
äestännu ellä vello (AES, MT 40, 27 (36)) read in context

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
vend	6,317	1,512
veli	4,145	1,196
eideke	1,475	288
elu	1,408	323
eit	1,307	387
oh	1,267	409
õnn	1,032	215
vennake	983	196

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
Isa- ja mehekodus	191
Ema haual	168
Põlvist põdema	149
Tule mulle!	145
Tule mulle	141
Venna sõjalugu	141
Tõbine naine	139
Hiljuke	126

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Paistu	430
Karksi	426
Halliste	352
Haljala	348
Setumaa	324
Kuusalu	251
Tarvastu	244
Helme	229
Kolga-Jaani	222
Viljandi	193

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	19
1840–1849	14
1850–1859	5
1860–1869	102
1870–1879	572
1880–1889	2,308
1890–1899	2,145
1900–1909	457
1910–1919	492
1920–1929	509
1930–1939	674
1940–1949	45

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	329
Oskar Philipp Kallas	246
Karl Viljak	207
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	151
koguja teadmata	142

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,980)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 7 (23), AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27), AES, MT 3, 11 (38), AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 21, 10, AES, MT 34, 1/3, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 27 (36), AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 44, 3/4, AES, MT 44, 4, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6), AES, MT 59, 5, AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 60, 32/3 (19), AES, Mt 64, 26, AES, MT 65, 12/3, AES, MT 65, 14, AES, MT 76, 12/3 (5), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 141, 9, AES, MT 141, 16/17, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 163, 15/17 (8), AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 174, 36, AES, MT 197, 4/5, AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 200, 59/61, AES, MT 200, 62, AES, MT 200, 63/4, AES, MT 200, 67/8, AES, MT 236, 42, AES, MT 236, 49, AES, MT 259, 1/6, AES, MT 262, 19, AES, MT 262, 39/40, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 527/31 (1), ARS 1, 647 (1), ARS 1, 659 (2), ARS 1, 666/8 (1), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), ARS 2, 81/8 (13), E A 3 (1), E A 5/6 (6), E A 21 (4), E A 21/2 (5), E A 51 (94), E A 64/5 (118), E A 104 (2), E A 149 (3), E A 155/6

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: elää

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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.

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: elli