iso

‘big; father’ · runosong lemma · Finnish

English gloss	big; father
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	9,523
By corpus	SKVR 6,790, JR 2,733, KR 371 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

ison, iso, issoin, isoin, isoi, isot, issois, isolle, isoini, isoa, isotoin, isolla, isoille, isos, isoo, isoksi, isosta, issoi, isoja, isottoman, issoo, isso, isosiko, isoŋ, isoista, isossa, isonsa, isotonta, isol, isoon, isohon, isona, issooin, isom, isoit, isollein, isoihe, isoll, isoks, isoilta … and 98 more of 138 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

Seto

iso

iso isso isu, himu

Moistatuste

iso

äike

Sources: Seto sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut · Mõistatuste murdesõnad

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
big (big's, biggest, bigger)	6,493	74.6%
father (father's, fathers, fathers')	1,607	18.5%
master (masters, master's, masters')	196	2.3%
great	174	2.0%
large (largest)	80	0.9%
elder (elders)	65	0.7%
sat	45	0.5%
greatly	44	0.5%
Uses counted	8,704

Example verses

iso kielti emo kielti (SKVR I1 12.) read in context
Great forbade, mother forbade.
iso minun heitti iljenelle (SKVR I1 81.) read in context
The Great One cast me to the abhorred place.
pohjolan iso emäntä (SKVR I1 127.) read in context
Northland's great mistress
ei ite iso minua (SKVR I1 171.) read in context
Not the father himself scolds me,
iso ennätti kysyä (SKVR I1 209.) read in context
Father asked:
iso peäty ikkunassa (SKVR I1 229.) read in context
The master at the window
isollisen iltasia (SKVR I1 234.) read in context
A father’s evening customs,
isosikko vain emosi (SKVR I1 317.) read in context
Was it only your mother,

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
koti	1,928	558
ikkuna	1,706	332
leipoa	1,342	247
täti	1,269	242
itkeä	1,124	363
kakku	916	192
kota	895	180
istua	875	309

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
Körö körö kirkkoon/tätilään/Huittisiin - kestitys	220
Lunastettava neito	163
Ison kotona ja toiselassa	144
Myyty neito	142
Oljamissa käynti	122
Tytön lempinimet ja/tai miniän haukkumanimet	106
Ison kotona ja miehelässä	81
Sotasanomat	72

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Soikkola	443
Lempaala	435
Narvusi	432
Vuole	305
Sakkola	193
Kaprio	190
Moloskovitsa	160
Vuokkiniemi	146
Rautu	140
Tyrö	136

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	8
1700–1709	9
1710–1719	1
1740–1749	2
1750–1759	3
1760–1769	2
1770–1779	17
1780–1789	10
1790–1799	1
1800–1809	3
1810–1819	11
1820–1829	37
1830–1839	280
1840–1849	636
1850–1859	780
1860–1869	113
1870–1879	115
1880–1889	971
1890–1899	811
1900–1909	566
1910–1919	737
1920–1929	125
1930–1939	577
1940–1949	111
1950–1959	186
1960–1969	159

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Volmari Porkka	604
Elias Lönnrot	474
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	289
D. E. D. Europaeus	266
A. D. Neovius	264

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,291)

SKVR: SKVR I1 12., SKVR I1 81., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 171., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 337., SKVR I1 339., SKVR I1 339 a)., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 362 a)., SKVR I1 364., SKVR I1 436., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 474., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 615., SKVR I1 634., SKVR I1 681., SKVR I1 683., SKVR I1 689., SKVR I1 697., SKVR I1 697 a)., SKVR I1 erill. [Sampo] 3., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpalaulanta] 6., SKVR I1 erill. [Vipunen] 2., SKVR I1 erill. [Väin. tuomio] 1., SKVR I2 759., SKVR I2 759 b)., SKVR I2 766 a)., SKVR I2 766 b)., SKVR I2 769., SKVR I2 777., SKVR I2 786., SKVR I2 828., SKVR I2 955., SKVR I2 976., SKVR I2 978., SKVR I2 979 a)., SKVR I2 1011., SKVR I2 1017., SKVR I2 1023., SKVR I2 1027., SKVR I2 1047., SKVR I2 1051., SKVR I2 1052., SKVR I2 1053., SKVR I2 1054., SKVR I2 1056., SKVR I2 1099., SKVR I2 1101., SKVR I2 1129., SKVR I2 1144., SKVR I2 1147., SKVR I2 1148 a)., SKVR I2 1149.

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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.