itkeä
‘cry’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | cry |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 13,396 |
| By corpus | SKVR 8,336, JR 4,755, KR 300 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.
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Attested wordforms
itki, itke, itket, itken, itkien, itkin, itkemää, itköö, itet, iten, itkemästä, itkevät, itkii, itin, itkisi, itk, itkemähä, itetitkö, itkiällä, itkyö, itkeen, itketellä, itkevä, itkeväinen, itkevänsä, itkehe, itkijen, itukas, inke, itkeminen, itkettävät, itkenynnä, itetkä, itettelee, itettäviä, itkennyt, itkettämän, itkiäistä, itkeevät, itkekkee … and 509 more of 549 attested forms
Example verses
- itk om pardasuun urohon (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Was bearded hero's cry - mitä itet väinämöinen (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
"Why weep, Väinämöinen?" - mid on itket väinämöine (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
"Why do you weep, Väinämöinen?" - kuuli miehen itkevänsä (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Heard the man weeping. - ite itki väinämöine (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
- itk on partasuun urohon (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
The cry was a bearded hero's, - itkeä hyryttelee (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Wept floating. - mitä sie itet väinämöine (SKVR I1 17.) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| mikä | 4,475 | 1,397 |
| älä | 2,622 | 590 |
| tilittää | 2,508 | 219 |
| tikka | 2,216 | 325 |
| istua | 2,025 | 565 |
| huokailla | 2,022 | 262 |
| neito | 1,675 | 631 |
| syy | 1,630 | 289 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Revon valitus | 140 |
| Tytärten hukuttaja | 122 |
| Kultalangan katkeaminen | 107 |
| Lunastettava neito | 107 |
| Varas vie koristeet | 106 |
| Kyynelten vierintä | 103 |
| Pahan sulhon saanut | 97 |
| Illat itken ikkunoissa | 92 |
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 | 478 |
| Lempaala | 221 |
| Soikkola | 212 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 175 |
| Vuole | 165 |
| Sakkola | 138 |
| Ilomantsi | 112 |
| Rautu | 109 |
| Suistamo | 106 |
| Moloskovitsa | 86 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 2 |
| 1670–1679 | 3 |
| 1690–1699 | 5 |
| 1700–1709 | 11 |
| 1760–1769 | 6 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 21 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 34 |
| 1820–1829 | 74 |
| 1830–1839 | 250 |
| 1840–1849 | 428 |
| 1850–1859 | 473 |
| 1860–1869 | 53 |
| 1870–1879 | 189 |
| 1880–1889 | 644 |
| 1890–1899 | 610 |
| 1900–1909 | 486 |
| 1910–1919 | 372 |
| 1920–1929 | 104 |
| 1930–1939 | 752 |
| 1940–1949 | 177 |
| 1950–1959 | 208 |
| 1960–1969 | 164 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 383 |
| Volmari Porkka | 293 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 237 |
| Frans Kärki | 176 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 172 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,084)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 90., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 117 b)., SKVR I1 117 c)., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 150., SKVR I1 151., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 175., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 184., SKVR I1 184 a)., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 186., SKVR I1 186 a)., SKVR I1 187., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 198., SKVR I1 202.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: itkema
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.