härra

‘lord’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	lord
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,485
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,485

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

härra, härrad, ärrad, härrä, härral, härrale, härrat, härraga, härrade, härräd, härrast, härrät, härr, härräken, härraks, härrasida, ärrät, herräkõnõ, härradele, härralegi, härräle, herräkese, härradega, härrakeine, härräl, härda, härralt, härras, härrasid, härradelle, härrädelle, härrada, härradel, härrakenne, härrädele, härräsa, herradele, hirrä, härragagi, härraje … and 25 more of 65 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

härra · 6

1. jõukamasse v. haritumasse kihti kuuluv v. käitumiselt ja välimuselt peen mees
2. meesisik (ka viisaka kõnetlussõnana)
3. isand, käskija

Idamurre

härra

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · 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
lord (lords, lord's, lords')	2,918	64.8%
master (masters, master's)	858	19.0%
gentleman (gentlemen, gentleman's)	537	11.9%
ox (oxen, ox's)	53	1.2%
heart (heart's)	44	1.0%
dear	35	0.8%
sir	18	0.4%
little	16	0.4%
plough (ploughs)	14	0.3%
ace	11	0.2%
Uses counted	4,504

Example verses

paneks ärrad ärgadesta (AES, MT 3, 10 (34)) read in context
I'd set plowshares from oxen,
ma tiiks ärrad ärgadeks (AES, MT 31, 6) read in context
I'd turn lords into oxen,
riia ärrad rõngu ärrad (AES, MT 43, 75) read in context
Riga's lords, Rõngu's lords.
tulgu riiast rikkad ärrad (AES MT 287, 4/14) read in context
Rich masters from Rīga,
kuulko õks jal kulla herräkese (AES, MT 145, 1/12) read in context
Listen, dear little lord,
suurõ saksa pärnü härrä (AES, MT 236, 34) read in context
The great lord, Pärnu's master.
üts härrä läts patseerima (AES, MT 236, 41) read in context
A lord went to patrol,
ärrät parunit ja vonnit (AES, MT 262, 39/40) read in context
Ärrä has barons and nobles,

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
härrakene	1,675	167
härg	1,154	272
riia	1,074	200
tiriliri	782	62
oh	777	205
panema	743	314
äestama	441	65
reede	436	60

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
Kättemaks sakstele	385
Palve sakstele	131
Neiu linn	65
Laulu võim	53
Imelik maja	52
Sundija sulane	36
Hirmus mõis	35
Kust laulud saadud	34

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Ambla	105
Väike-Maarja	89
Haljala	78
Tõstamaa	69
Viljandi	67
Paistu	58
Kadrina	57
Vigala	56
Helme	54
Viru-Nigula	51

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	7
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	12
1870–1879	121
1880–1889	540
1890–1899	754
1900–1909	154
1910–1919	195
1920–1929	268
1930–1939	248
1940–1949	7

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	124
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	46
Hans Leoke	46
Jüri Välbe	42
koguja teadmata	41

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,500)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 10 (34), AES, MT 31, 6, AES, MT 43, 75, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 236, 34, AES, MT 236, 41, AES, MT 262, 39/40, ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 868 (7), ARS 1, 900 (2), E A 10 (16), E A 46 (83), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 56 (99), E A 63 (115), E A 95, E A 104 (1), E A 104/5 (4), E A 107 (24), E A 220 (14), E A 223/4 (268), E A 236/7 (5), E A 296 (8), E A 373/4 (2), E A 432/5 (1), E A 471/2 (2), E A 626 (12), E A 679/80 (14), E A 703 (22), E A 757 (3), E A 759 (1), E A 783 (17), E A 793/4 (4), E A 798 (8), E A 802 (11), E A 811/2 (1), E A 812/3 (2), E A 849/50 (12), E A 854/5 (2), E A 857 (5), E A 858 (8), E A 932/6 (2), E A 940/1 (4), E A 976 (3), E A 1001 (1), E A 1006/8 (6), E A 1012/3 (9), E A 1031/3 (7), E A 1048 (19), E A 1048/9 (20), EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 7/17, EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 6, l. 9 (3), EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 6, l. 10-10p (9), EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 6, l. 10p (10), EKmS 4° 1, 9 (10), EKmS 4° 1, 14 (17), EKmS 4° 1, 17 (21), EKmS 4° 1, 34 (43)

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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.