hea

‘good’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective

English gloss	good
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	8,258
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 8,258

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

hea, hää, hüä, heada, head, häida, üva, heale, hääd, eada, hüa, hia, heast, heaks, häid, heagi, hüvaks, hääde, hiad, höä, heap, hääke, hiada, heaksi, hääs, heaga, häädu, häästa, hääst, hääks, heädä, heade, heas, hüäst, heasse, hüad, heab, hüäd, übaks, hääga … and 47 more of 87 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

hea; · adj iroon n+Hea mees lubama

1. oma laadi, omaduste, kvaliteedi poolest hinnatav, väärtuslik, nõuetele vastav
2. sõbralik, lahke; positiivsete eetiliste omadustega, moraalselt väärtuslik; kiiduväärt
3. mingis suhtes soodus, kasulik, sobiv
4. mugav, mõnus, meeldiv, hõlpus, kerge

(+4)

hea

(kinnituse, nõusoleku v. möönduse väljendamiseks:) olgu pealegi

Idamurre

hea

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
good (good's, better)	5,974	94.1%
voice (voice's, voices)	65	1.0%
call (calls)	31	0.5%
sound	31	0.5%
even	30	0.5%
goodness	18	0.3%
bad	16	0.3%
silver	15	0.2%
deep	11	0.2%
horse (horse's)	11	0.2%
Uses counted	6,348

Example verses

ühüksa üva jõgeda (AES, MT 3, 6 (18)) read in context
Nine good rivers,
ühöksa üva jõgeda (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Nine deep rivers,
ma oppa hüä poolõ (AES, MT 40, 22 (28)) read in context
õdagult um hüä laulda (AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37)) read in context
In the evening, it is good to sing,
üheksa üva jõgeda (AES, MT 60, 33 (20)) read in context
Nine were the deep rivers,
oma eada äälekesta (AES, MT 76, 10 (2)) read in context
my path’s small voice,
kas oo äial eada särki (AES MT 287, 4/14) read in context
Does father-in-law have a shirt
kolmandast üva õuekuera (AES, MT 90, 12/3) read in context
Third a good yard-dog,

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
hobune	3,948	820
üheksa	1,044	168
oh	1,005	313
ks	793	438
häll	761	135
andma	629	287
meel	606	225
söötja	589	67

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
Memme vaev	79
Mardilaul	59
Hea hääl	51
Haned kadunud	44
Pajamäng	42
Lunastatav neiu	39
Tule mulle	36
Tule mulle!	36

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	387
Haljala	118
Ambla	105
Kuusalu	103
Väike-Maarja	96
Tõstamaa	90
Urvaste	89
Kadrina	78
Vigala	78
Viljandi	76

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	14
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	7
1850–1859	4
1860–1869	31
1870–1879	274
1880–1889	902
1890–1899	1,100
1900–1909	264
1910–1919	255
1920–1929	353
1930–1939	493
1940–1949	24

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	134
koguja teadmata	67
Peeter Penna	59
Gustav Seen	57
Joosep Hurt	51

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,000)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 6 (18), AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 40, 22 (28), AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37), AES, MT 60, 33 (20), AES, MT 76, 10 (2), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 90, 12/3, AES, MT 102, 21 (3), AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 205, 10/1, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 247, 51, AES, MT 247, 51, AES, MT 257, 23/5, ARS 1, 653 (2), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 28/32 (2a), ARS 2, 34/5 (3), ARS 2, 39/46 (6), ARS 2, 77/80 (12), ARS 2, 326 (93), E A 5 (4), E A 7 (9), E A 19 (1), E A 20/1 (3), E A 29 (9), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 55/6 (97, 98), E A 55/6 (97, 98), E A 56 (99), E A 70/1 (129), E A 81/2 (152), E A 104 (2), E A 117/9 (2), E A 119/20, E A 127/8 (2), E A 148 (2), E A 154 (10), E A 156/62 (4), E A 162/4 (5), E A 172/4 (2), E A 199/200 (5), E A 253/5 (19), E A 264/7 (26), E A 286/8 (45), E A 297/8 (11), E A 298/300 (12), E A 406 (14), E A 408 (16), E A 409/13 (1), E A 501/3, E A 624 (8), E A 625 (10), E A 637/9 (8), E A 652/3 (23), E A 676/7 (10), E A 683 (3), E A 722/5 (2)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: hyvä

← haud heinä →

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: hää