hõbe

‘silver’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	silver
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,780
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,776

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

hõbe, hõbedat, õbe, hõbedad, hõbeda, hõpe, hõbedasta, õbeda, hõpõ, õbedad, hõbedast, hõbet, õbedat, õbedasta, hõbedaga, õbedast, hõbest, õbet, hõbedaida, õbene, hõbedas, hõbõhõt, obe, obejad, hookene, hõpet, hobe, õbedasi, hõbedasse, hõbetse, obedat, hõbedada, hõpõt, õbetse, hobeja, õbedaga, hõbesta, hõbõdat, obedasta, hõbedal … and 237 more of 277 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

hõbe · 2

1. keemiline element, valge läikiv väärismetall (Ag); seda metalli rohkesti sisaldav sulam
2. sellest metallist v. seda metalli rohkesti sisaldavast sulamist raha vm. ese(med)
3. miski, mis on (eriti värvuselt v. läikelt) selle metalli sarnane

Idamurre

hõbe

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
silver (silvers, silver's, silvered)	6,176	95.1%
little	315	4.9%
silvery	123	1.9%
horse (horses)	36	0.6%
item (items)	33	0.5%
lead	12	0.2%
hõbe	8	0.1%
sister	8	0.1%
teach	8	0.1%
silverless	7	0.1%
Uses counted	6,494

Example verses

õbe õlanukilana (AES, MT 3, 9 (30)) read in context
On shoulders’ bony curves,
tere õbe õuelinnud (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Hail, silver courtyard birds,
obe arile aetu kaske (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
Horse driven to the field, oh birch.
meil om obe õlpakandme (AES, MT 45, 5/8) read in context
We have silver straw-bearer
mine kiriku süö kulda ja hõbedad (AES, MT 62, 11 (2)) read in context
go to the church, devour gold and silver,
taat mul kinkis õbedat (AES, MT 66, 10/12) read in context
The father gifted me silver,
ja õtsi õllele õbedat (AES, MT 88, 43) read in context
And fetch silver for beer,
alta hammaste hobeja (AES, MT 141, 15) read in context
Beneath teeth, silver,

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
haljas	1,747	215
õlg	976	182
hani	912	178
hõõruma	896	102
hõlm	719	103
hammas	691	170
mööda	686	181
aljas	665	74

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
Imemaa	143
Lauliku sõim	125
Halb laulik	97
Kuldnaine	84
Kuld	78
Mardilaul	72
Tule mulle!	59
Tule mulle	57

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	188
Paistu	115
Halliste	114
Haljala	95
Karksi	94
Kuusalu	92
Kolga-Jaani	80
Helme	70
Ambla	69
Tarvastu	65

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	3
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	30
1870–1879	224
1880–1889	629
1890–1899	785
1900–1909	194
1910–1919	243
1920–1929	274
1930–1939	294
1940–1949	20

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	87
Karl Viljak	80
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	69
Oskar Philipp Kallas	55
Joosep Hurt	50

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,903)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 9 (30), AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 62, 11 (2), AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 141, 15, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES MT 208, 17, AES, MT 219, 3, AES, MT 253, 18, AES, MT 282, 24, ARS 1, 660 (1), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), ARS 2, 81/8 (13), E A 24 (3), E A 97, E A 98, E A 104 (1), E A 104/5 (4), E A 134/6 (7), E A 162/4 (5), E A 195 (5), E A 214/5 (12), E A 216/8 (15), E A 293/5 (5), E A 308/14 (2), E A 316 (2), E A 348/50 (9), E A 358/9 (5), E A 391/2, E A 419/27 (3), E A 428 (5), E A 457 (3), E A 463 (9), E A 464/5 (11), E A 477/81 (2), E A 512 (5), E A 563/4 (23), E A 571 (33), E A 593/4 (16), E A 595/8; 613/4, E A 601/2 (4), E A 629/30 (1), E A 630/1 (2), E A 690 (10), E A 725/8 (3), E A 733 (1), E A 750 (713a), E A 772/4 (5), E A 777/8 (9), E A 783 (17), E A 825/7 (4), E A 892 (14), E A 975/6 (2), E A 995/6 (1), E A 999 (4), E A 1006/8 (6)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: hopea

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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.