ilo

‘joy’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	joy
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	5,731
By corpus	SKVR 2,973, JR 2,758, KR 272 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

ilo, ilon, ilolla, iloksi, iloa, ilolle, ilosta, ilona, ilot, ilossa, ilota, iloni, iloista, ilohon, iloin, iluo, iloks, iloll, iloon, ilollen, ilolta, ilotta, iloine, iloo, ilosen, iloissaan, iloissa, ilonna, ilonan, il, iloja, ilol, ilokseni, ilonsa, iloella, ilosi, ilotsi, iloxi, ilossansa, ilova … and 97 more of 137 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

ilo · 11

lust, rõõm, ilutsemine

Seto

ilo

ilu, kaunidus jäŕv `oĺlgi Saarõkülä ilo
lõbu, lust ku ma iks kohe lää, ilo iks i̬i̬h lätt Se

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Seto 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
joy (joy's, joys)	4,412	95.9%
joyful	45	1.0%
joyfully	45	1.0%
ilona	42	0.9%
pleasure	22	0.5%
rejoice	15	0.3%
happy	10	0.2%
rejoicing	9	0.2%
Uses counted	4,600

Example verses

kuulemaan iloa tuota (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
To hear that joy,
ei ilo ilolla käunut (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
ilo ilmalda kadouvi (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
Joy will leave the world,
tämän ilon iloajaista (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
A bringer of joy?"
ilon ittieh lähemmä (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
jo ei ikkunat iluo (SKVR I1 10.) read in context
Nor do the windows rejoice,
ei ilolle ilo (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
No joy for joy.
tämän yöllistä iloa (SKVR I1 12.) read in context
Of this night's joy,

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
tuntua	981	125
sulho	846	182
ihminen	610	128
ilta	410	106
ikä	364	105
ihana	363	69
veli	339	199
iso	337	123

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
Kanteleen soitto	199
Kanteleen synty	172
Laivaretki	149
En ilolla laula	93
Isoni iloita käski	70
Ilokylässä syntynyt	66
Väinämöisen ammunta	64
Veneenveisto	55

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	170
Lempaala	103
Vuokkiniemi	84
Sakkola	71
Vuole	67
Soikkola	65
Ilomantsi	57
Suistamo	56
Metsäpirtti	41
Uhtua	39

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	16
1700–1709	5
1710–1719	1
1720–1729	1
1740–1749	1
1750–1759	10
1760–1769	8
1770–1779	8
1780–1789	17
1800–1809	3
1810–1819	20
1820–1829	54
1830–1839	180
1840–1849	296
1850–1859	285
1860–1869	38
1870–1879	120
1880–1889	256
1890–1899	263
1900–1909	195
1910–1919	139
1920–1929	43
1930–1939	263
1940–1949	45
1950–1959	63
1960–1969	72

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	282
Volmari Porkka	93
D. E. D. Europaeus	86
A. D. Neovius	85
A. A. Borenius	83

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,407)

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: ilu

← ikä ilus →

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.