kaivo
‘well’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | well |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,496 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,011, JR 1,485, KR 96 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
kaivo, kaivon, kaivolle, kaivot, kaivoon, kaivossa, kaivosta, kaivoo, kaivolta, kaivohon, kavo, kaivolla, kaivos, kaivol, kaivole, kaivoll, kaevo, kaivost, kaivosesta, kaivoa, kaivoh, kaivoss, kaivoille, kaivolt, kaivoteelle, kaivola, kaiwo, kaiwosta, kaivoos, kaivuo, kaiwolle, kaiwon, kaivoho, kaivollen, kaivone, kaivoza, kaevon, kaevoo, kaivosehen, kaiwoon … and 61 more of 101 attested forms
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 |
|---|---|---|
| well (well's, wells) | 3,982 | 94.2% |
| dig (dug, digs) | 184 | 4.4% |
| longing | 28 | 0.7% |
| pit | 18 | 0.4% |
| long (longs) | 6 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 4,225 |
Example verses
- häntä kaivo kalliota (SKVR I1 130.) read in context
his tail gouged the rock. - kaivoho kalattomahje (SKVR I1 145.) read in context
The pond fishless, - kaivohe kalattomahe (SKVR I1 157.) read in context
The well with fish abundance. - vienan kavo kaunokainen (SKVR I1 236.) read in context
Viena's fair lovely maiden, - kokan kaivo kallivosta (SKVR I1 281 a).) read in context
Built a well from rock, - kavo kanto kahjahansa (SKVR I2 744.) read in context
- kavo kantoi kahjahasen (SKVR I2 744 b).) read in context
The vessel bore the foam-mass, - kultakansi oli kaivon peällä (SKVR I2 753.) read in context
A golden lid atop the well.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| syvä | 2,534 | 321 |
| kansi | 1,626 | 209 |
| kappa | 1,575 | 178 |
| vesi | 1,397 | 441 |
| kukkola | 1,077 | 94 |
| kuivua | 915 | 91 |
| kajava | 738 | 79 |
| poju | 496 | 55 |
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 | 147 |
| Soikkola | 98 |
| Metsäpirtti | 65 |
| Sakkola | 51 |
| Lempaala | 47 |
| Alatornio | 46 |
| Vuole | 45 |
| Suistamo | 39 |
| Uusikirkko Vpl. | 38 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 37 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1700–1709 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 3 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 17 |
| 1820–1829 | 23 |
| 1830–1839 | 70 |
| 1840–1849 | 128 |
| 1850–1859 | 168 |
| 1860–1869 | 18 |
| 1870–1879 | 42 |
| 1880–1889 | 231 |
| 1890–1899 | 184 |
| 1900–1909 | 163 |
| 1910–1919 | 295 |
| 1920–1929 | 64 |
| 1930–1939 | 432 |
| 1940–1949 | 93 |
| 1950–1959 | 92 |
| 1960–1969 | 73 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Volmari Porkka | 122 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 101 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 101 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 76 |
| Frans Kärki | 72 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,103)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 130., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 236., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I2 744., SKVR I2 744 b)., SKVR I2 753., SKVR I2 928., SKVR I2 935., SKVR I2 935 a)., SKVR I2 935 b)., SKVR I2 936., SKVR I2 943 b)., SKVR I2 945., SKVR I2 946., SKVR I2 951., SKVR I2 953., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1038., SKVR I2 1039., SKVR I2 1117., SKVR I2 1120., SKVR I2 1144., SKVR I2 1145., SKVR I2 1148., SKVR I2 1148 a)., SKVR I2 1149., SKVR I2 1150., SKVR I2 1153., SKVR I2 1182., SKVR I2 1196., SKVR I2 1198., SKVR I2 1199., SKVR I2 1201., SKVR I2 1202., SKVR I2 1203., SKVR I2 1204., SKVR I2 1206., SKVR I2 1208., SKVR I2 1209., SKVR I2 1244., SKVR I2 erill. [Lemminkäisen virsi] 6., SKVR I3 1380., SKVR I3 1524., SKVR I3 1576., SKVR I3 1578., SKVR I3 1581., SKVR I3 1732., SKVR I3 1986., SKVR I3 1986 a)., SKVR I3 1988., SKVR I3 2020., SKVR I4 104., SKVR I4 333., SKVR I4 427., SKVR I4 603., SKVR I4 615., SKVR I4 792., SKVR I4 892.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: kaev
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.