herra

‘lord’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	lord
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	11,196
By corpus	SKVR 5,730, JR 5,466, KR 368 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.

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Attested wordforms

herra, herran, herrat, herrad, herrasta, herrain, herroin, herraa, herroille, erra, herrojen, herralta, herroja, herr, serra, herral, herraksi, herroi, herras, herralle, herroilla, herrana, herroil, herramme, herrast, herrall, herren, herralla, herrassa, herroill, herransa, serraa, herrallensa, herram, herrani, herrasi, herre, herraan, herroa, herroisakin … and 135 more of 175 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 word	Uses	Share
lord (lord's, lords, lords')	14,171	85.8%
master (master's, masters, masters')	1,558	9.4%
gentleman (gentlemen, gentleman's)	683	4.1%
mister	63	0.4%
sir	19	0.1%
Uses counted	16,507

Example verses

herra hienoista vitiä (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
The Lord fine reins,
herran kesrä kellittele (SKVR I1 93.) read in context
Lord's summer doesn't ring.
herroa ylevämpi (SKVR I1 115.) read in context
More exalted than a lord,
hyvän herran huolimoihin (SKVR I1 289.) read in context
To the good Lord's care-places
herran hurmetta hyveä (SKVR I1 297.) read in context
The Lord's blessed virtue.
herran henkellä huvällä (SKVR I1 325.) read in context
koapu herran kattehiksi (SKVR I1 330.) read in context
The Lord’s patches as aid!"
kaapu herran kattieksi (SKVR I1 332.) read in context
The Lord’s cloak as covering,

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
henki	7,105	1,027
meidän	3,464	715
herättää	3,107	321
hyvä	2,540	767
hovi	1,813	247
jeesus	1,799	420
hoikka	1,472	210
kananpoika	1,393	172

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
Käärmeen sanat	247
Käärmeen synty	208
Poudan sanat	157
Käärmeen pureman historiola	152
Verensulku	128
Kyllä Herra herättää	126
Onnimanni	124
Leino leski	103

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Narvusi	235
Soikkola	185
Lempaala	149
Vuokkiniemi	136
Suistamo	132
Sakkola	122
Vuole	118
Ilomantsi	109
Kaprio	95
Metsäpirtti	84

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	8
1660–1669	1
1670–1679	4
1680–1689	3
1690–1699	28
1700–1709	22
1710–1719	1
1720–1729	1
1730–1739	1
1740–1749	1
1750–1759	14
1760–1769	6
1770–1779	4
1780–1789	33
1800–1809	10
1810–1819	85
1820–1829	129
1830–1839	282
1840–1849	474
1850–1859	532
1860–1869	94
1870–1879	118
1880–1889	908
1890–1899	658
1900–1909	560
1910–1919	829
1920–1929	302
1930–1939	1,274
1940–1949	182
1950–1959	230
1960–1969	262
1970–1979	2

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	490
Kaarle Krohn	245
Volmari Porkka	222
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	189
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari	174

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,080)

SKVR: SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 289., SKVR I1 297., SKVR I1 325., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 377., SKVR I1 380., SKVR I1 416., SKVR I1 445., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 450., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 504., SKVR I1 595., SKVR I1 669., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I2 758., SKVR I2 826., SKVR I2 849., SKVR I2 1007., SKVR I2 1020., SKVR I2 1051., SKVR I2 1103 c)., SKVR I2 1105 a)., SKVR I2 1105 b)., SKVR I2 1118., SKVR I2 1127., SKVR I2 1159., SKVR I2 1179., SKVR I2 1191., SKVR I2 1213., SKVR I3 1281 a)., SKVR I3 1281 b)., SKVR I3 1290., SKVR I3 1299., SKVR I3 1362., SKVR I3 1363., SKVR I3 1372., SKVR I3 1373., SKVR I3 1399., SKVR I3 1400., SKVR I3 1401., SKVR I3 1402., SKVR I3 1407., SKVR I3 1469., SKVR I3 1470., SKVR I3 1768., SKVR I3 1845., SKVR I3 1847., SKVR I3 1849., SKVR I3 1851., SKVR I3 1852., SKVR I3 1852 a)., SKVR I3 1853., SKVR I3 1854., SKVR I3 2008., SKVR I3 2019.

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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.