jää
‘ice’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish verb
| English gloss | ice |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 6,406 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,821, JR 1,775, KR 167 poems, ERAB 1,638 |
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
jäätä, jää, jäässä, jäistä, uisu, jiätä, jäät, jiässä, jääksi, jiällä, jääss, jääl, jäähän, jäes, jäälää, jääskeen, jäitsä, jeähä, jäänuneksi, jaalta, jeäd, jiäs, jääleh, jäittä, jäusta, jäille, jäänenessi, jääta, jiähä, jeän, jiäss, jiät, jäil, jäitseä, jäädanesse, jäält, jiästä, jältä, jeädä, jeähän … and 274 more of 314 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
jää · 14
- 1. külmunud, tahkes olekus vesi
- 2. veekogude jääkate
EMS
jää
- külmunud vesi; veekogude jääkate;
- külmunud, jäätunud;
- külmuma, jäätuma, (kinni) külmetama, jääga kattuma
jää
Idamurre
jää
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 senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| remained | 63.1% |
| remains | 10.6% |
| stay | 9.9% |
| stayed | 6.6% |
| remain | 4.6% |
| stays | 2.3% |
| let | 1.5% |
| didn't | 1.0% |
| ice | 0.9% |
| remaining | 0.8% |
Example verses
- jeäd nut suoho seizomahi (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
- meren jäätä juoxemahan (SKVR I1 40.) read in context
To melt the sea's ice, - jeärilläh on jeärtynyt (SKVR I1 58 a).) read in context
"Shaken but unyielding." - ei jeän kuin tsakarisormi (SKVR I1 84 b).) read in context
- ütel ta järve jäädse ollõv (AES, MT 40, 11/2 (16)) read in context
He said the lake would be ice-covered, - kas lääd sina kus jää mina (AES, MT 43, 56/7) read in context
Will you go where I stay? - sinnä kül no järv jääss (AES, MT 102, 20 (2)) read in context
There the lake froze in ice - et ta ei jää meheta (AES, MT 152, 3/6) read in context
Lest she remain husbandless.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| hyy | 3,197 | 345 |
| järvi | 2,232 | 275 |
| jäädyttää | 1,232 | 98 |
| juosta | 1,000 | 220 |
| myöten | 944 | 182 |
| jäähdyttää | 943 | 82 |
| kylmä | 913 | 164 |
| jänis | 911 | 148 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Tulen sanat | 343 |
| Tulen synty | 189 |
| Oljamissa käynti | 85 |
| Sotasanomat | 57 |
| Verensulku | 27 |
| Kilpalaulanta | 24 |
| Olin orja vellolleni | 22 |
| Nälän kulku | 21 |
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 | 98 |
| Soikkola | 90 |
| Suistamo | 76 |
| Setumaa | 73 |
| Lempaala | 61 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 41 |
| Ilomantsi | 32 |
| Helme | 31 |
| Metsäpirtti | 27 |
| Rautu | 27 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 7 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 2 |
| 1780–1789 | 14 |
| 1800–1809 | 4 |
| 1810–1819 | 14 |
| 1820–1829 | 53 |
| 1830–1839 | 78 |
| 1840–1849 | 137 |
| 1850–1859 | 144 |
| 1860–1869 | 32 |
| 1870–1879 | 96 |
| 1880–1889 | 441 |
| 1890–1899 | 359 |
| 1900–1909 | 165 |
| 1910–1919 | 188 |
| 1920–1929 | 154 |
| 1930–1939 | 469 |
| 1940–1949 | 98 |
| 1950–1959 | 80 |
| 1960–1969 | 75 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 165 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 119 |
| Volmari Porkka | 92 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 57 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 52 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,667)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 144., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 470., SKVR I1 523., SKVR I1 527., SKVR I1 528., SKVR I2 705., SKVR I2 706., SKVR I2 710., SKVR I2 719., SKVR I2 759., SKVR I2 906., SKVR I2 967., SKVR I2 1020., SKVR I2 1030., SKVR I2 1061., SKVR I2 1062., SKVR I2 1063., SKVR I3 1396., SKVR I3 1413., SKVR I3 1554., SKVR I4 62., SKVR I4 63., SKVR I4 73., SKVR I4 83., SKVR I4 231., SKVR I4 233., SKVR I4 239., SKVR I4 243., SKVR I4 244., SKVR I4 250., SKVR I4 251., SKVR I4 261., SKVR I4 262., SKVR I4 264., SKVR I4 270., SKVR I4 271., SKVR I4 277., SKVR I4 283., SKVR I4 285., SKVR I4 287., SKVR I4 288., SKVR I4 290., SKVR I4 292., SKVR I4 294., SKVR I4 295., SKVR I4 297., SKVR I4 299., SKVR I4 302., SKVR I4 302 a)., SKVR I4 304., SKVR I4 306., SKVR I4 308., SKVR I4 309.
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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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.