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etsiä

‘search’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

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Part of speechverb
LanguageFinnish
Total occurrences6,493
By corpusSKVR 4,219, JR 2,258, KR 166 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.

Full dictionary entry · Search in the corpus · Geographic distribution

Attested wordforms

etsi, etsin, etsimähän, etsimää, etsimään, etsiit, etsit, etsii, etsimäh, etsittihin, etsimeä, etsimässä, etsivän, etsittiin, etsivi, etsiä, etsivä, etsitähän, etsittii, etsitään, etshi, etsien, etsimääne, etittiin, etsivät, etsitä, etsimeää, etsimähä, etsimättä, etsitty, ettimeä, ettsimäh, etsitää, etsimähe, etsitäh, etsiessä, etsikää, etsisin, etsiipi, etsiän … and 227 more of 267 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 wordUsesShare
search (searched, searching, searches)4,00370.4%
seek (sought, seeks, seeking)1,52226.8%
searcher (searcher's, searchers)340.6%
seeker (seeker's, seekers)340.6%
find (found)310.5%
let (let's)230.4%
etsimään100.2%
etsi60.1%
while60.1%
Uses counted5,684

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
renki1,838251
maata1,566328
laittaa1,512291
emo1,292404
piika1,125271
pirtapuu1,04288
reslapuu95279
lähteä860268

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 typePoems
Maailmansyntyruno252
Hevonen kadonnut veljeltä109
Vesitieltä pilviin viety neito77
Varkaalle menijä75
Iso tammi71
Marketan runo60
Nurmen neito57
Lapsenetsintävirsi56

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Narvusi400
Soikkola224
Vuokkiniemi148
Suistamo120
Lempaala119
Vuole115
Kaprio98
Sakkola89
Metsäpirtti73
Uusikirkko Vpl.69

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1690–16998
1700–17094
1730–17391
1750–17595
1760–17694
1770–17791
1780–17899
1810–18199
1820–182913
1830–1839145
1840–1849339
1850–1859316
1860–186932
1870–1879102
1880–1889562
1890–1899460
1900–1909374
1910–1919186
1920–192964
1930–1939370
1940–1949114
1950–195971
1960–196964

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Volmari Porkka327
Elias Lönnrot229
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori202
D. E. D. Europaeus171
J. Fr. Ruotsalainen94
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,267)

Related lemmas

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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.