hobune

‘horse’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	horse
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	19,149
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 19,149

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

hobune, hobuse, hoosta, obune, hobused, hooste, obuse, obene, hobese, hobene, hobust, hobusta, hopõn, obused, hobõsõ, obese, hobo, hobest, hobõst, hobeste, ooste, hobuste, obeste, hobõnõ, hopen, hobusel, hobusega, hobusid, hobusida, obest, hobõstõ, obusta, hobuga, obust, hoostel, uoste, hobule, obesa, hobone, hobuseks … and 311 more of 351 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

hobune · 4

1. veoks, sõiduks ja ratsutamiseks kõige üldisemalt kasutatav koduloom (Equus caballus)
2. neljajalgne polsterdatud hüppe- ja hooglemisriist

Idamurre

hobune

mära

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
horse (horses, horse's, horses')	14,420	97.0%
silver	155	1.0%
little	105	0.7%
ox (oxen)	80	0.5%
oat (oats)	68	0.5%
stallion	47	0.3%
mare	31	0.2%
bridle	24	0.2%
steed	20	0.1%
Uses counted	14,866

Example verses

üks aga sueb obuseid (AES, MT 3, 5 (14)) read in context
One sews coats,
sinna aga upuvad obused (AES, MT 3, 6 (18)) read in context
There, the horses sink,
eks mul old ea obune (AES, MT 3, 18) read in context
Was I not without kin?
üks mul sueb obusi (AES, MT 3, 19) read in context
One sews my coats,
kadril on kaskine obune (AES, MT 3, 22) read in context
Kadri has a birchwood horse,
anna vett uostel juua (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Give water to the horses,
kas nägid mede obosi (AES, MT 28, 12/3) read in context
Did you see our horse?
hopõn sink sita pääl (AES, MT 40, 8 (10)) read in context
Silver lead atop it.

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
hea	3,948	820
hoidma	3,924	767
ostma	3,282	637
isa	3,060	885
kangepea	2,390	213
hoov	1,827	208
jooma	1,407	489
hirnuma	1,085	199

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
Venna sõjalugu	486
Sõjalaul	339
Kaevul kosija	288
Kosjahobu söötmine	261
Oleks see mees minu!	245
Oleks	194
Teng, hobu, naine	145
Hobune varastatud	133

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	547
Kuusalu	388
Haljala	357
Kolga-Jaani	277
Paistu	271
Karksi	268
Ambla	229
Tõstamaa	217
Kadrina	216
Halliste	212

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	12
1840–1849	9
1850–1859	8
1860–1869	89
1870–1879	647
1880–1889	2,247
1890–1899	2,647
1900–1909	610
1910–1919	733
1920–1929	786
1930–1939	891
1940–1949	44

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	323
Karl Viljak	261
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	246
Oskar Philipp Kallas	174
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	171

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,253)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 5 (14), AES, MT 3, 6 (18), AES, MT 3, 18, AES, MT 3, 19, AES, MT 3, 22, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 28, 12/3, AES, MT 40, 8 (10), AES, MT 40, 14/6 (18), AES, MT 40, 18 (21), AES, MT 40, 20 (23), AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 72, AES, MT 44, 2, AES, MT 44, 4, AES, MT 54, 4 (6), AES, MT 55, 3, AES, MT 60, 33/5 (21), AES, MT 60, 37/8 (30), AES, MT 62, 17, AES, MT 76, 21 (13), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 88, 30, AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 102, 21 (3), AES, MT 102, 22/3 (1), AES, MT 102, 24, (3), AES, MT 117, 60 (14), AES, MT 141, 5, AES, MT 141, 18/20, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1), AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 174, 42/3, AES, MT 186, 111, AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 200, 63/4, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES, MT 219, 38/9, AES, MT 236, 43/4, AES, MT 236, 45/6, AES, MT 236, 57, AES, MT 247, 51, AES, MT 247, 51, AES, MT 257, 22/3, AES, MT 259, 8/9, AES, MT 262, 32/3, AES, MT 275, 1, ARS 1, 388/91 (2), ARS 1, 411/3 (4), ARS 1, 421/4 (2), ARS 1, 435/7 (1), ARS 1, 452/3 (1), ARS 1, 474/5 (2), ARS 1, 483/7 (3), ARS 1, 492/5 (7), ARS 1, 629/31 (1), ARS 1, 649/50 (1)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: hevonen

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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.