jääma

‘remain’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	remain
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	18,076
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 18,074

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

jäi, jääb, jäid, jäänud, jääs, jäin, jäägu, jää, jäeb, jäävad, jääd, jääda, jäänd, jähi, jäivad, jäänü, jäe, jään, jääma, jäevad, jääte, jäiä, jäegu, jäiva, jäivä, jääme, jäime, jäite, jäend, jäia, jääge, jääks, jäen, jääp, jäävä, jäema, jääsi, jäägü, jäete, jäeda … and 106 more of 146 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

jääma

1. olema, püsima
1. 'joon ainult morssi'
2. säilima; alles, üle v. järel olema
3. muutuma, saama

EMS

jääma

(tähendusrühmade piirid väga tinglikud)
mingis olukorras või seisundis, senises tegevuses või olekus (ka seisukohal, arvamusel) püsima; kuskil püsivalt olema, paiknema; mingisse olukorda või seisundisse sattuma, minema; mingisse tegevusse asuma; kellekski, millekski, mingisuguseks saama, muutuma (ja sellisena püsima)
(koos ma-inf abessiiviga; lause sisult eitav)
(ülesharimata, sööti jäetud põllust, maast)

(+58)

Idamurre

jääma

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 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
remain (remained, remains, remaining)	16,620	74.3%
stay (stayed, stays, staying)	5,148	23.0%
let	511	2.3%
become (became, becomes)	197	0.9%
ice	170	0.8%
leave (left)	70	0.3%
stick (stuck)	55	0.2%
freeze (froze, frozen)	24	0.1%
Uses counted	22,375

Example verses

mänd läks katki kuor jäi kernu (AES, MT 3, 4 (10)) read in context
The pine broke, the bark stayed aside,
jäin kui jänes murule (AES, MT 3, 9 (30)) read in context
I’d stay like a hare on the meadow,
jäägu koju koputama (AES, MT 3, 10 (31)) read in context
Let her stay home rotting,
siis jäi obu ostemata (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
Then the sister-in-law remained unbought,
siis jäi obu ostemata (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
Then the sister-in-law remained unbought,
mul jäi musta ja rumala (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
To me remained the dark and foolish,
et ei jääks koju istma (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
So she won't stay home idle,
üts veli viil mul jäi (AES, MT 22, 4) read in context
One brother still stayed with me,

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
kus	21,147	4,279
jälle	7,363	1,387
kodu	4,926	1,783
too	2,156	594
vanamees	1,861	398
kuulama	1,605	341
maha	1,576	602
peale	1,491	1,197

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
Liiri-lõõri!	410
Suude sulg	352
Laulu võim	343
Küla ütel	206
Liiri-lõõri	190
Ema haual	180
Vara vaeslapseks	177
Kust laulud saadud	174

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	560
Kuusalu	339
Haljala	315
Paistu	307
Kolga-Jaani	290
Karksi	281
Halliste	260
Viljandi	253
Tõstamaa	226
Helme	214

Attestation over time

Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	2
1820–1829	23
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	12
1850–1859	9
1860–1869	77
1870–1879	677
1880–1889	2,102
1890–1899	2,655
1900–1909	644
1910–1919	726
1920–1929	969
1930–1939	1,306
1940–1949	79

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	270
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	238
Karl Viljak	222
Oskar Philipp Kallas	154
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	144

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,891)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 4 (10), AES, MT 3, 9 (30), AES, MT 3, 10 (31), AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 22, 4, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 34, 6/8, AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 14/6 (18), AES, MT 40, 31 (42), AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 67, AES, MT 43, 68, AES, MT 44, 4, AES, MT 60, 32/3 (19), AES, MT 62, 19/20, AES, MT 64, 29, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 32/3 (4), AES, MT 76, 35/6 (7), AES, MT 84, 1/2, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 88, 32, AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 90, 12/3, AES, MT 93, 9/10, AES, MT 102, 22/3 (1), AES, MT 104, Part 12 (2), AES, MT 117, 51/52 (1), AES, MT 141, 8/9, AES, MT 141, 21, AES, MT 141, 28, AES, MT 141, 32/3, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 163, 3/4 (2), AES, MT 163, 10/12 (6), AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 165, 3/4, AES, MT 165, 5/66, AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 174, 32/3, AES, MT 180, 1, AES, MT 186, 110, AES, MT 186, 113/5, AES, MT 197, 4/5, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 36, AES MT 208, 24/7, AES, MT 230, 3/5, AES, MT 230, 15, AES, MT 238, 24/5, AES, MT 252, 2, AES, MT 257, 8/10, AES, MT 257, 22/3, AES, MT 257, 23/5

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: jäädä

← jää jõudma →

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.

Uses of these spellings that the AI analysis read as another word are left out of the verses and counts: In Estonian: jää; In Finnish: jää

In Estonian: jää
Part of the uses of this spelling shown on this page were checked again against their verses in a separate AI reading.
Uses checked: 110
Read as this page’s word: 109
Unclear: 1

In Finnish: jää
Every use of this spelling shown on this page was checked again against its verse in a separate AI reading, and uses read as another word were left out.
Uses checked: 34
Read as this page’s word: 34
Unclear: 0

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: jääs

The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.

In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 19,614
Uses left out as another word: 40
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0