jalka
‘leg’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | leg |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 8,213 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,715, JR 3,495, KR 377 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
jalka, jalat, jalan, jalassa, jalkaan, jalkaa, jaloin, jalkka, jaloilla, jalasta, jalalla, jaloissa, jalkani, jalkoja, jalkain, jalkas, jaloista, jalaat, jalkojani, jalaan, jalkoa, jalkoi, jalkojansa, jaloille, jalk, jalkasi, jalalle, jalkojen, jalaksi, jalkojais, jalkansa, jalakaa, jalkoin, jalkahan, jalani, jalolla, jalkais, jalkojaa, jalasa, jalakoo … and 361 more of 401 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EMS
-jalka
Sources: EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, 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') | 5,960 | 64.7% |
| foot (foot's, feet, feet's) | 3,195 | 34.7% |
| runner | 59 | 0.6% |
| Uses counted | 9,214 |
Example verses
- sykysyt hevon jalalla (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Autumns on horseback, - kussa jaloim muaha kiändu (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
- neljin jaloin juoksovoa (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
Four-legged runners, - kussa jaloin moahan käänty (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Where with feet to swamp turned, - kuhun jaloin moahan keäntyi (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Where he turned with feet, - se kusi kuren jaloilla (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"Pissed on the crane’s legs;" - kussa jaloim moaha keändy (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
- se kusi kuren jaloilla (SKVR I1 26.) read in context
It pissed on the crane's legs;
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 |
|---|---|---|
| saapas | 3,643 | 471 |
| hivellä | 2,075 | 199 |
| hevonen | 1,935 | 500 |
| kengittää | 1,863 | 230 |
| purra | 1,789 | 361 |
| kannus | 1,358 | 192 |
| neljä | 1,164 | 249 |
| kengätön | 1,163 | 105 |
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 | 511 |
| Soikkola | 261 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 255 |
| Lempaala | 143 |
| Ilomantsi | 131 |
| Uhtua | 116 |
| Vuole | 101 |
| Uskela | 92 |
| Suistamo | 90 |
| Sakkola | 87 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1660–1669 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 4 |
| 1700–1709 | 7 |
| 1750–1759 | 3 |
| 1760–1769 | 2 |
| 1770–1779 | 6 |
| 1780–1789 | 28 |
| 1800–1809 | 6 |
| 1810–1819 | 47 |
| 1820–1829 | 93 |
| 1830–1839 | 327 |
| 1840–1849 | 532 |
| 1850–1859 | 500 |
| 1860–1869 | 57 |
| 1870–1879 | 250 |
| 1880–1889 | 848 |
| 1890–1899 | 640 |
| 1900–1909 | 487 |
| 1910–1919 | 731 |
| 1920–1929 | 201 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,065 |
| 1940–1949 | 228 |
| 1950–1959 | 305 |
| 1960–1969 | 209 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 555 |
| Volmari Porkka | 325 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 207 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 192 |
| Jaako Länkelä | 180 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,597)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 48., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., 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 72., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 a)., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 111., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 168., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 244., SKVR I1 249., SKVR I1 250., SKVR I1 250 a)., SKVR I1 251., SKVR I1 253 a)., SKVR I1 257., SKVR I1 261., SKVR I1 261 a)., SKVR I1 264., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 322., SKVR I1 342.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: jalg
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.