ilus

‘beautiful’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective

English gloss	beautiful
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,616
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,616

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

ilus, ilusa, ilusad, illos, illus, ilusast, ilosa, iluse, ilusat, ilosat, iluste, ilos, ilusaks, ilosast, illust, ilosti, ilosamb, ilusas, ilusale, ilusate, ilusaida, ilusi, ilosagi, ilosas, ilosal, ilosit, ilusaid, ilusal, ilusida, ilusake, ilusasta, ilusikesed, ilosap, ilusada, ilusile, ilusasse, ilosale, ilusemb, ilised, ilosakõnõ … and 94 more of 134 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

ilus · 2

1. esteetiliselt meeldiv, kaunis; kunstielamust pakkuv
2. praktika, tegeliku elu nõudeile vastav (seetõttu väliseltki kauniks peetav, muljet avaldav)
3. hea, kiiduväärt, tubli, viisakas, kombekohane
4. mõnus, meelepärane, tore; õnnelik

(+1)

EMS

ilus

meeldiv; nauditav
(silmale)
kaunis, nägus
(kõrvale, haistmismeelele)

(+9)

Idamurre

ilus

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut · 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
beautiful (beautiful's)	10,670	90.4%
beauty (beauties)	597	5.1%
beautifully	224	1.9%
more	222	1.9%
pretty	169	1.4%
handsome	41	0.3%
lovely	41	0.3%
little	29	0.2%
joyful	19	0.2%
joy	15	0.1%
Uses counted	11,804

Example verses

või mis ilus või mis ilus (AES, MT 3, 2 (6)) read in context
Oh, what beauty, oh, what beauty,
ilusad sinised sukad (AES, MT 3, 5 (12)) read in context
Beautiful blue stockings,
ilusa igatsemaie (AES, MT 3, 7 (23)) read in context
The fair one to yearn.
oia oma ilus tütar (AES, MT 3, 11 (35)) read in context
Oh her own fair daughter,
niitis einamaa ilusa (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
Trimmed the beautiful feast-land,
ollin kui uba ilusa (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
I was like a lovely bean,
need olid eenätä ilusad (AES, MT 28, 12/3) read in context
They were truly beautiful,
surmakõnõ mille sa võti ar mu ilosa ivani (AES, MT 40, 8 (11)) read in context
Death, why did you take my fair Ivan,

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
ihu	1,428	194
ilm	1,243	214
ilma	1,165	352
väga	1,151	184
heinamaa	1,124	193
tüdruk	850	193
elamine	673	72
oh	667	247

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
Põlvist põdema	127
Tõbine naine	120
Palve sakstele	92
Tule mulle!	90
Tule mulle	88
Isa- ja mehekodus	72
Tore neiu	71
Seni heinamaa ilus	68

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	419
Kuusalu	196
Haljala	181
Paistu	173
Ambla	155
Karksi	154
Kolga-Jaani	139
Kadrina	133
Tõstamaa	129
Viljandi	114

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	5
1840–1849	6
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	44
1870–1879	384
1880–1889	1,271
1890–1899	1,497
1900–1909	372
1910–1919	409
1920–1929	493
1930–1939	694
1940–1949	48

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	154
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	137
Karl Viljak	118
Oskar Philipp Kallas	99
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	88

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,578)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (6), AES, MT 3, 5 (12), AES, MT 3, 7 (23), AES, MT 3, 11 (35), AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 4, 1, AES, MT 28, 12/3, AES, MT 40, 8 (11), AES, MT 40, 11/2 (16), AES, MT 40, 26 (35), AES, MT 40, 31 (42), AES, MT 43, 75, AES, MT 45, 9/10, AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3), AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 54, 5 (7), AES, MT 62, 17/8, AES, MT 64, 23, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 66, 8/8, AES, MT 76, 32/3 (4), AES, MT 76, 34/5 (6), AES, MT 79, 6/9, AES, MT 104, Part 13 (2), AES, MT 117, 52/3 (3), AES, MT 117, 53/4 (4), AES, MT 117, 54/5 (6), AES, MT 141, 9, AES, MT 141, 10, AES, MT 141, 34/5, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 154, 6, AES, MT 166, 2/3 (1), AES, MT 166, 5 (4), AES, MT 174, 32/3, AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 180, 7/8 (b), AES, MT 188, 53/4 (1), AES MT 208, 18, AES MT 210, 9/11, AES, MT 216, 27, AES, MT 219, 15, AES, MT 222, 30/1, AES, MT 262, 7, AES, MT 262, 16/7, AES, MT 262, 26, ARS 1, 461/3 (4), ARS 1, 495/6 (8), ARS 1, 527/31 (1), ARS 1, 643/5 (1), ARS 1, 657/8 (1), ARS 1, 733/5 (2), ARS 1, 817 (11), ARS 1, 818 (14), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), ARS 2, 66/8 (8), ARS 2, 81/8 (13), ARS 2, 281 (48), E A 7 (9)

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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.