isä
‘father’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | father |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 12,155 |
| By corpus | SKVR 6,453, JR 5,702, KR 310 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
isä, isän, isoni, isäni, isäs, isyt, isäsi, isää, isänsä, issäin, isälle, issää, issäis, isäin, isäsikö, isäns, isällensä, isät, isäini, isämme, isänä, isälleni, isältä, isältäni, isäis, isälleen, isältänsä, isällä, isänän, isyd, isästä, izän, issäi, isällesi, isyven, isääs, isälles, isänsi, isääsi, izä … and 202 more of 242 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 |
|---|---|---|
| father (father's, fathers, fathers') | 14,253 | 97.6% |
| master (masters, master's) | 191 | 1.3% |
| grandfather | 118 | 0.8% |
| mother | 44 | 0.3% |
| Uses counted | 14,606 |
Example verses
- toisin ennen miun isäni (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
"My father before brought - toisin ennem miun isoni (SKVR I1 93.) read in context
"Not like my father before," - toisin ennen miun isoni (SKVR I1 95.) read in context
Differently did my father, - isä käski äiti kielti (SKVR I1 101.) read in context
Father ordered, mother forbade: - niin souan isoni purtta (SKVR I1 108.) read in context
Thus I steer my father’s boat - toisinba ennen isäs kulgi (SKVR I1 149.) read in context
"Your father once traveled otherwise," - isä kattso ikkunasta (SKVR I1 172.) read in context
- isäni ikusen kassan (SKVR I1 184 a).) read in context
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 |
|---|---|---|
| äiti | 6,673 | 1,125 |
| istua | 1,987 | 579 |
| sattua | 1,633 | 236 |
| tappaa | 1,530 | 365 |
| nähdä | 1,276 | 427 |
| itkeä | 927 | 366 |
| rakas | 804 | 186 |
| koti | 776 | 368 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Pakeneva | 223 |
| Lunastettava neito | 178 |
| Kirkollisten tekstien väännelmiä | 161 |
| Käärmeen sanat | 115 |
| Tule isä Tuuterista | 89 |
| Tiedusteluja ja pyyntöjä leppäkertulle | 87 |
| Ison kotona ja toiselassa | 84 |
| Verensulku | 82 |
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 | 677 |
| Suistamo | 153 |
| Sakkola | 145 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 126 |
| Vuole | 119 |
| Kivennapa | 119 |
| Ilomantsi | 113 |
| Kemi | 98 |
| Liissilä | 97 |
| Soikkola | 96 |
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 | 14 |
| 1700–1709 | 22 |
| 1750–1759 | 13 |
| 1760–1769 | 6 |
| 1770–1779 | 5 |
| 1780–1789 | 37 |
| 1800–1809 | 12 |
| 1810–1819 | 53 |
| 1820–1829 | 124 |
| 1830–1839 | 301 |
| 1840–1849 | 482 |
| 1850–1859 | 594 |
| 1860–1869 | 63 |
| 1870–1879 | 159 |
| 1880–1889 | 872 |
| 1890–1899 | 698 |
| 1900–1909 | 728 |
| 1910–1919 | 803 |
| 1920–1929 | 248 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,764 |
| 1940–1949 | 267 |
| 1950–1959 | 377 |
| 1960–1969 | 423 |
| 1970–1979 | 3 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 467 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 309 |
| Volmari Porkka | 221 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 209 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 207 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,083)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 172., SKVR I1 184 a)., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 187., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 193., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 222., SKVR I1 228., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 238., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 241., SKVR I1 248., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 283., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 364., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 437., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 447., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 450., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 454., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 470., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 474., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 487., SKVR I1 491.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: isa
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.