jooksma

‘run’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	run
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,530
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,515

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

joosi, joosta, jooksis, jookseb, jookse, joostes, jooksid, jooksin, joos, joht, jooseb, joosis, jooksvad, joosk, jooksemaie, joosin, joosid, joosten, jooksnud, joosteh, joosõ, jooksta, jooksma, joostõh, johu, jookstes, joosku, juokseb, jooksevad, joosnud, jooske, jooskva, joostõn, jooksku, jooksen, jookseva, juoksid, juostes, jooksi, joosev … and 215 more of 255 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

jooksma

1. (inimeste, loomade kohta:) jalgadel kiiresti edasi liikuma
2. (hrl. vedeliku v. peeneteralise aine kohta:) voolama, valguma
3. (kiiresti v. ühetasaselt) liikuma; libisema, liuglema
4. edenema, sujuma, laabuma, ladusalt toimuma

(+1)

EMS

jooksma

(inimestest ja loomadest)
kiirete sammudega liikuma (kiiremini kui käies); ruttama; kihutama
sõjaväeline peksukaristus 17.–19. saj
(ühendites) midagi ägedasti tegema, kallale tormama;

(+43)

jooksma-

vedelikku juhtiv; vedelikku läbilaskev, lekkiv
(tuuliku töötamisest)

Idamurre

jooksma

Seto

jooksma,

toimetama `Maaŕa jovva ai imp `joośtõllaʔ, jaɫakõsõ anna ai imp lupa

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
run (ran, running, runs)	8,091	91.1%
flow (flows, flowed, flowing)	399	4.5%
drink (drank, drinks, drunk, drinking)	122	1.4%
let (let's)	84	0.9%
while	55	0.6%
already	28	0.3%
go (went)	18	0.2%
jook (jooks)	17	0.2%
strength	14	0.2%
case	11	0.1%
Uses counted	8,882

Example verses

kelle sirp kaugelle juokseb (AES, MT 3, 19) read in context
Whose sickle runs far,
juokseb nurka annekene (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Anne flees to the corner.
kohe joht viid viidä aig (AES, MT 40, 6 (8)) read in context
There passed five, five times,
sis ma no kodo joostõh joosi (AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9)) read in context
Then they ran homeward,
ega sii must küll mudu jookse (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
For here the black one won’t run through mud,
junkur juostes mõisa puolta (AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4)) read in context
The squire ran from the manor's side
vihma sadas vetta jooksis (AES, MT 66, 8/10) read in context
Rain fell, water flowed,
mardid juosvad maa müdiseb (AES, MT 84, 3/7) read in context
Spirits run, the earth rumbles,

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
jõgi	4,386	627
juur	2,900	448
muidu	1,379	211
jõudma	1,161	247
alt	1,046	311
järgi	828	113
jook	710	107
mööda	694	215

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
Kalajõgi	231
Venna sõjalugu	87
Kuningamäng	70
Tule mulle!	61
Kaevul kosija	60
Tule mulle	60
Ema haual	59
Noorik kodu käimas	59

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	376
Karksi	196
Haljala	184
Kuusalu	181
Halliste	143
Paistu	137
Kolga-Jaani	126
Tarvastu	117
Kadrina	115
Viljandi	111

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	10
1830–1839	3
1840–1849	7
1850–1859	4
1860–1869	52
1870–1879	376
1880–1889	1,155
1890–1899	1,467
1900–1909	321
1910–1919	398
1920–1929	483
1930–1939	600
1940–1949	31
1950–1959	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	166
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	144
Karl Viljak	124
Oskar Philipp Kallas	102
Joosep Hurt	85

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,220)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 19, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 40, 6 (8), AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9), AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 66, 8/10, AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 141, 21/22, AES, MT 141, 26a/26b, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 174, 28/9, AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 174, 45, AES, MT 197, 28, AES, MT 205, 17/8, AES MT 215, 4, AES, MT 230, 11/2, AES, MT 230, 13/4, AES, MT 236, 57, ARS 1, 391/2 (3), ARS 1, 426/7 (4), ARS 1, 459/60 (2), ARS 1, 495/6 (8), ARS 1, 527/31 (1), ARS 1, 540 (1), ARS 1, 633/5 (2), ARS 1, 649/50 (1), ARS 1, 660 (1), ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 849 (4), ARS 2, 7/11 (2), E A 3/4 (2), E A 41/2 (70), E A 50/1 (93), E A 62 (112), E A 73 (135), E A 74/5 (138), E A 97, E A 97, E A 108 (26), E A 108 (27), E A 109 (1), E A 117/9 (2), E A 122/4 (6), E A 130/3 (5), E A 133/4 (6), E A 191/3 (2), E A 210 (6), E A 212 (3), E A 216/8 (15), E A 220 (14), E A 222/1 (16), E A 283/4 (42), E A 291/2 (2), E A 292/3 (4), E A 308/14 (2), E A 355 (1), E A 363/4 (10)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: juosta

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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.