jalg

‘leg; foot’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	leg; foot
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	10,916
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 10,916

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

jalga, jalad, jala, jalgu, jalgas, jalas, jalg, jal, jalge, jalast, jalgo, jalusta, jalaga, jalah, jalule, jalu, jalale, jalust, jalana, jalgada, jalki, jalul, jalal, jalges, jalasse, jalgel, jalussa, jalgade, jalala, jalgadega, jalgadelle, jalakene, jalanna, jalase, jalgede, jalgul, jalassid, jalgest, jalulta, jalusse … and 110 more of 150 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

jalg · 24

1. inimese v. ahvi alajäse; linnu tagajäse; paljudel loomadel, putukatel jm. üldse jäse v. kulgemiselund; ka labajalg, (taga)käpp
2. alumine kandev v. toetav osa
3. endisaegne pikkusmõõt, umbes 30 cm
4. joogipoolis, alkohoolne jook

EMS

jalg

elusolendite jäse, millele ta toetub ja mille abil liigub; jalg (sag ainsuslikult)
labajalg
jalgsi
(koos eitusega) mitte sammugi, mitte sugugi, üldse mitte

(+92)

Idamurre

jalg

Seto

jalg

kehaosa: jalg vanast `võ̭ õ̭ ti haŕassit ni kaḿmitsit, lat́s `saista aij‿`jalgu pääle, vot, mis

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 · Seto 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
leg (legs, leg's, legs')	7,977	66.3%
foot (feet, foot's, feet's)	3,937	32.7%
again	100	0.8%
already	74	0.6%
Uses counted	12,023

Example verses

kõik minu kääd ja jalad aiged (AES, MT 3, 3 (8)) read in context
All my hands and legs are aching.
mart tab sukke jalga suada (AES, MT 3, 6 (15)) read in context
Mart wants socks on his foot to get,
kadakas kahe jala vahele (AES, MT 3, 10 (31)) read in context
A juniper between her legs.
puupakk tal jalgas (AES, MT 3, 18) read in context
Wooden shackles on their legs,
jala alt on allitanud (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Their soles worn thin,
jala alt sedä porida (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
The mud underfoot,
jalad selgaje seotud (AES, MT 5, 4) read in context
Legs tied to the back,
mul jala külmetäse (AES, MT 22, 3) read in context
My legs are freezing,

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
saabas	3,398	473
alt	2,201	554
püks	2,188	335
jaanilill	1,502	143
sukk	1,239	218
panema	1,078	589
jaan	1,060	217
nahkpüksid	970	84

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
Ema haual	221
Venna sõjalugu	198
Sõjalaul	133
Oleks see mees minu!	90
Laulu võim	89
Neli neidu	85
Kust laulud saadud	82
Sillad soodele	79

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	652
Kolga-Jaani	239
Karksi	236
Kuusalu	205
Haljala	205
Paistu	196
Räpina	178
Viljandi	176
Tõstamaa	168
Ambla	168

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	8
1830–1839	4
1840–1849	4
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	71
1870–1879	545
1880–1889	1,699
1890–1899	2,118
1900–1909	447
1910–1919	560
1920–1929	759
1930–1939	1,041
1940–1949	71

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	197
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	178
Karl Viljak	147
Oskar Philipp Kallas	128
Jakob Jagomann	119

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,770)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 3 (8), AES, MT 3, 6 (15), AES, MT 3, 10 (31), AES, MT 3, 18, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 4, 1, AES, MT 5, 4, AES, MT 22, 3, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 34, 6, AES, MT 34, 8, AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9), AES, MT 40, 11/2 (16), AES, MT 40, 14/6 (18), AES, MT 40, 22 (27), AES, MT 40, 28/9 (39), AES, MT 43, 60, AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3), AES, MT 58, 3, AES, MT 59, 9, AES, MT 64, 25, AES, MT 66, 6, AES, MT 76, 16/7 (9), AES, MT 76, 21 (13), AES MT 287, 15/7, AES MT 287, 18/9, AES, MT 100, 2, AES, MT 102, 11, AES, MT 102, 13, AES, MT 102, 26 (3), AES, MT 102, 29 (4), AES, MT 141, 11, AES, MT 141, 26a/26b, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 171, 28/9 (2), AES, MT 174, 28/9, AES, MT 174, 37/8, AES, MT 180, 2, AES, MT 200, 59/61, AES, MT 205, 10/1, AES, MT 205, 32/3, AES, MT 205, 34/5, AES MT 208, 19, AES, MT 216, 17, AES, MT 217, 1/2, AES, MT 219, 38/9, AES, MT 236, 45/6, AES, MT 247, 54, AES, MT 262, 4, AES, MT 262, 13/4, AES, MT 262, 21, AES, MT 262, 32/3, AES, MT 268, 4, AES, MT 275, 1, AES, MT 283, 18/9 (1), ARS 1, 402/3 (5), ARS 1, 466/7 (8), ARS 1, 492/5 (7), ARS 1, 516/7 (4)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: jalka

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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.