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‘age; lifetime’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | age; lifetime |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 5,310 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,031, JR 2,246, KR 457 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
ikänä, ikä, iän, ijän, ikäni, ijäksi, iäksi, ikänsä, iällä, ijällä, ikäsi, ikeä, iässä, igänä, iäks, igäni, ijässä, ijälle, iälle, ikää, ikän, ikkää, ikään, ijät, ikäs, iäkseni, igiä, iäksensä, ijälläni, ikäti, iköä, iälläni, iäkseen, iältä, ijältään, ikkään, ikäh, ikähän, ikkäis, iiän … and 103 more of 143 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 |
|---|---|---|
| age (age's, ages) | 2,463 | 54.7% |
| ever | 963 | 21.4% |
| lifetime (lifetime's, lifetimes) | 277 | 6.2% |
| forever | 252 | 5.6% |
| life (life's, lives) | 160 | 3.6% |
| eternity (eternities, eternity's) | 113 | 2.5% |
| time | 76 | 1.7% |
| yoke (yokes) | 56 | 1.2% |
| eternal | 26 | 0.6% |
| lifespan | 17 | 0.4% |
| Uses counted | 4,501 |
Example verses
- takoja iän ikuinen (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Eternal forge-master, - ambuja ijän iguine (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
- tagoja ijän iguine (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
- takoja ijän ikuinen (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Eternal metal-beater, - takoja ijän ikuini (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Forger eternal, - takoja iän ikuinen (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Eternal hammerer, - takoja ijän ikune (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
- niin tuuli ikäh vie (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
Then time's wind carried
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kaikki | 2,924 | 636 |
| ikuinen | 1,765 | 228 |
| selvitä | 1,398 | 146 |
| ilma | 1,322 | 332 |
| ilmoinen | 1,303 | 132 |
| takoja | 1,185 | 152 |
| itkeä | 794 | 238 |
| toivoa | 779 | 124 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Kilpalaulanta | 95 |
| Lemmennostoloitsut | 89 |
| Piennä petti mun emoni | 78 |
| Kultaneito | 54 |
| Nuorena aika laulaa | 54 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 52 |
| Laivaretki | 52 |
| Kanteleen synty | 51 |
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 | 238 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 200 |
| Suistamo | 136 |
| Ilomantsi | 104 |
| Soikkola | 93 |
| Uhtua | 74 |
| Vuole | 70 |
| Suojärvi | 61 |
| Lempaala | 58 |
| Kontokki | 51 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 5 |
| 1670–1679 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 3 |
| 1700–1709 | 13 |
| 1720–1729 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 8 |
| 1760–1769 | 5 |
| 1770–1779 | 9 |
| 1780–1789 | 15 |
| 1800–1809 | 5 |
| 1810–1819 | 32 |
| 1820–1829 | 98 |
| 1830–1839 | 303 |
| 1840–1849 | 435 |
| 1850–1859 | 270 |
| 1860–1869 | 35 |
| 1870–1879 | 161 |
| 1880–1889 | 524 |
| 1890–1899 | 367 |
| 1900–1909 | 265 |
| 1910–1919 | 177 |
| 1920–1929 | 56 |
| 1930–1939 | 455 |
| 1940–1949 | 88 |
| 1950–1959 | 88 |
| 1960–1969 | 85 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 570 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 136 |
| Volmari Porkka | 124 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 110 |
| A. A. Borenius | 108 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,513)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 31., SKVR I1 37., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 65., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 98., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 131 a)., SKVR I1 147., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 150., SKVR I1 151., SKVR I1 152., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 158.
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.
Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: iästä, iät, iänis, iär
The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.
In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 4,479
Uses left out as another word: 149
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0