istua
‘sit’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | sit |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 12,008 |
| By corpus | SKVR 6,649, JR 5,359, KR 326 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
istu, istuu, istui, istuin, istut, istumaan, istumahan, istuupi, istuvi, istuit, istumaa, istumassa, istuis, istua, istunutta, istuvat, istuisin, istunut, istusi, istupi, istumah, istuessa, istutko, istuut, istumatta, istuivat, istunt, istul, istuissa, istuvan, istuisi, istuksen, istusih, istutaan, istuen, istuossa, istii, istumilla, istuttiin, ishtub … and 366 more of 406 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 |
|---|---|---|
| sit (sat, sits, sitting, sitting's) | 11,244 | 98.3% |
| seat (seated, seats, seat's) | 90 | 0.8% |
| down | 61 | 0.5% |
| while | 37 | 0.3% |
| let (let's) | 27 | 0.2% |
| sitter (sitters) | 27 | 0.2% |
| sitting (sittings) | 12 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 11,434 |
Example verses
- istu imbi airoloille (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
Sit now at the oar-benches, - ite istusih perähä (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
- yön istu ikkunoissa (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Sat by windows through night, - ite istusih perähä (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
- illat istui ikkunoissa (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Evenings sat at windows, - istu polvelle potoisen (SKVR I1 16.) read in context
Sat on the sturdy knee, - illat istu ikkunoissa (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
Evenings sat at windows, - itse istuvi perässä (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Herself sat in the stern.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| pää | 3,695 | 1,389 |
| kammio | 2,364 | 272 |
| itse | 2,321 | 675 |
| itkeä | 2,025 | 565 |
| isä | 1,987 | 579 |
| silta | 1,948 | 369 |
| harakka | 1,800 | 301 |
| aita | 1,652 | 385 |
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).
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 | 420 |
| Soikkola | 253 |
| Suistamo | 219 |
| Lempaala | 194 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 163 |
| Ilomantsi | 151 |
| Alatornio | 135 |
| Sakkola | 130 |
| Kaprio | 129 |
| Vuole | 126 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 8 |
| 1700–1709 | 2 |
| 1720–1729 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 4 |
| 1770–1779 | 2 |
| 1780–1789 | 11 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 60 |
| 1820–1829 | 78 |
| 1830–1839 | 285 |
| 1840–1849 | 529 |
| 1850–1859 | 495 |
| 1860–1869 | 77 |
| 1870–1879 | 201 |
| 1880–1889 | 907 |
| 1890–1899 | 720 |
| 1900–1909 | 668 |
| 1910–1919 | 926 |
| 1920–1929 | 220 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,367 |
| 1940–1949 | 325 |
| 1950–1959 | 313 |
| 1960–1969 | 338 |
| 1970–1979 | 2 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 475 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 361 |
| Volmari Porkka | 352 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 276 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 242 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,562)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 5., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 36., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 65., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 104., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 111., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 119., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 124., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 163 b)., SKVR I1 181., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 240., SKVR I1 241., SKVR I1 272., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 283., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 285., SKVR I1 286., SKVR I1 294., SKVR I1 300., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 318., SKVR I1 323., SKVR I1 326.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: istuma
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.