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hyvä

‘good’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective

English glossgood
Part of speechadjective
LanguageFinnish
Total occurrences22,655
By corpusSKVR 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.

SenseShare
good95.6%
good's1.6%
ones0.7%
dear0.6%
even0.3%
well0.3%
goodbye0.2%
voice0.2%
goodness0.1%
better0.1%

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
kaunis12,1452,352
rakas2,568464
herra2,540767
mieli2,116633
henki2,062478
hevonen2,059687
emäntä1,987617
nurmi1,954396

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 typePoems
Kukon ja kanan saunamatka183
Käärmeen sanat150
Lunastettava neito107
Käärmeen synty104
Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan99
Lemminkäisen virsi97
Sotamiehenotto97
Sotasanomat86

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Narvusi703
Vuokkiniemi350
Lempaala317
Soikkola292
Suistamo263
Sakkola223
Ilomantsi211
Vuole200
Metsäpirtti134
Suojärvi129

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1650–16591
1670–16791
1690–169911
1700–170921
1720–17291
1740–17491
1750–17596
1760–17698
1770–177912
1780–178956
1800–180916
1810–181984
1820–1829140
1830–1839527
1840–1849759
1850–1859800
1860–1869107
1870–1879218
1880–18891,495
1890–18991,098
1900–1909832
1910–1919795
1920–1929260
1930–19391,326
1940–1949329
1950–1959264
1960–1969260
1970–19791

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot847
Volmari Porkka393
Kaarle Krohn312
D. E. D. Europaeus290
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori277
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,481)

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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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.