hyvä
‘good’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective
| English gloss | good |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 22,655 |
| By corpus | SKVR 12,579, JR 8,746, KR 1,329 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.
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Attested wordforms
hyvä, hyvän, hyvät, hyvällä, hyvälle, h, hyväksi, hyville, hyväst, hyviksi, hyväks, hyväiset, hyä, hyve, hyvee, hyväisen, hyvänen, hyvijä, hyvi, hyväinen, hyrehi, hyväsen, hyvempi, hyvikse, hyvil, hyvissä, hyväistä, hyväne, hiva, hyväine, hyväste, hyväset, hywästä, hyhhyn, hyvitä, hyvväätä, hyväle, hywänä, hyvill, hyvähä … and 515 more of 555 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| good | 95.6% |
| good's | 1.6% |
| ones | 0.7% |
| dear | 0.6% |
| even | 0.3% |
| well | 0.3% |
| goodbye | 0.2% |
| voice | 0.2% |
| goodness | 0.1% |
| better | 0.1% |
Example verses
- hyppäsi hyvän selällä (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Leaped onto the good steed's back, - hyppäsi hyvän selällä (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Leapt upon a good back, - hyrehi hyvändöläine (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
- selästä hyvän hevoisen (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
From the back of his good horse, - hurmehin hyvät sopasi (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Bloodies your fine garments." - tien hyvän kävältyöi (SKVR I1 30 a).) read in context
- hyrehi hyväsukuini (SKVR I1 44.) read in context
- hyvän turvan tuovaksesi (SKVR I1 51.) read in context
To bring good protection.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kaunis | 12,145 | 2,352 |
| rakas | 2,568 | 464 |
| herra | 2,540 | 767 |
| mieli | 2,116 | 633 |
| henki | 2,062 | 478 |
| hevonen | 2,059 | 687 |
| emäntä | 1,987 | 617 |
| nurmi | 1,954 | 396 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Kukon ja kanan saunamatka | 183 |
| Käärmeen sanat | 150 |
| Lunastettava neito | 107 |
| Käärmeen synty | 104 |
| Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan | 99 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 97 |
| Sotamiehenotto | 97 |
| Sotasanomat | 86 |
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 | 703 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 350 |
| Lempaala | 317 |
| Soikkola | 292 |
| Suistamo | 263 |
| Sakkola | 223 |
| Ilomantsi | 211 |
| Vuole | 200 |
| Metsäpirtti | 134 |
| Suojärvi | 129 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1670–1679 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 11 |
| 1700–1709 | 21 |
| 1720–1729 | 1 |
| 1740–1749 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 6 |
| 1760–1769 | 8 |
| 1770–1779 | 12 |
| 1780–1789 | 56 |
| 1800–1809 | 16 |
| 1810–1819 | 84 |
| 1820–1829 | 140 |
| 1830–1839 | 527 |
| 1840–1849 | 759 |
| 1850–1859 | 800 |
| 1860–1869 | 107 |
| 1870–1879 | 218 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,495 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,098 |
| 1900–1909 | 832 |
| 1910–1919 | 795 |
| 1920–1929 | 260 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,326 |
| 1940–1949 | 329 |
| 1950–1959 | 264 |
| 1960–1969 | 260 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 847 |
| Volmari Porkka | 393 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 312 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 290 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 277 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,481)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 52., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 128., SKVR I1 133., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 184 a)., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 221., SKVR I1 222., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 289., SKVR I1 354., SKVR I1 354 a)., SKVR I1 355., SKVR I1 355 a)., SKVR I1 358., SKVR I1 360., SKVR I1 361., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 366., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 397., SKVR I1 403., SKVR I1 406., SKVR I1 410 a)., SKVR I1 437., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 440., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 461., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 470.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: hea
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.