kandma

‘carry’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	carry
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	8,597
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 8,597

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

kanna, kannab, kandis, kanda, kandke, kand, kandsin, kandemaie, kandma, kannad, kandsid, kanti, kannas, kanneti, kandvad, kandemasta, kannaks, kantud, kandema, kanname, kandas, kandku, kannavad, kannaksin, kandamaie, kandan, kannate, kantaks, kandsi, kandse, kandeessa, kandes, kandõmahe, kandeenna, kannetava, kandamesta, kannõti, kandemahe, kandemata, kandmahe … and 161 more of 201 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kandma · 46

1. hrl. üles tõstetuna edasi toimetama, ühest paigast teise viima v. tooma
2. millelegi altpoolt toeks olema, seda ülal hoidma
3. peal lasuvat raskust välja kannatama, selle all mitte kokku vajuma
4. taluma, (välja) kannatama

(+4)

EMS

kandma

ühest kohast teise toimetama; tooma, viima
füüsilise jõuga
väga hoidma ja hellitama
vihkama, viha pidama

(+24)

Idamurre

kandma

kandma

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
carry (carried, carries, carrying)	11,983	82.1%
wear (wears, wore)	662	4.5%
jug (jugs)	419	2.9%
heel (heels)	254	1.7%
bear	251	1.7%
handle	95	0.7%
burden	65	0.4%
load	65	0.4%
edge	61	0.4%
while	59	0.4%
Uses counted	14,595

Example verses

sie tuob tükid kannab pangad (AES, MT 3, 7 (22)) read in context
that one brings fabrics, bears dishes,
mis mu kahe kanna alla (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
What under my heels lay,
kanna körred karjaaida (AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6)) read in context
Carry sheaves to cattle shed
joo äga kurku kanna kaela (AES, MT 27, 32/4) read in context
(Drink, throat; bear it, neck!)
kand verevit kalõvit (AES, MT 40, 20 (24)) read in context
Carried bloody fish.
kiä jõud iks sängü säläh kanda (AES, MT 40, 23 (29)) read in context
Who could carry the bed's foot,
kannab kangast kangli all (AES, MT 40, 26 (35)) read in context
Bears fabric beneath the loom;
tii pääl käisin käe pääl kandsin (AES, MT 43, 56/7) read in context
Walked the path, carried on hand,

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
kask	2,172	761
kiik	1,811	488
kaer	1,691	329
kas	1,272	485
kamalus	1,169	129
vaenukeel	1,142	118
kamber	959	298
ader	958	184

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
Venna sõjalugu	153
Tütarde tapja	138
Kosjahobu söötmine	135
Kasvatus asjatu	112
Kiige katsumine	112
Sõjalaul	104
Liiri-lõõri!	93
Tule mulle!	85

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	355
Kuusalu	333
Kolga-Jaani	226
Haljala	225
Paistu	214
Karksi	209
Halliste	170
Tõstamaa	160
Ambla	159
Tarvastu	156

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	5
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	3
1850–1859	9
1860–1869	58
1870–1879	474
1880–1889	1,584
1890–1899	1,904
1900–1909	455
1910–1919	579
1920–1929	596
1930–1939	707
1940–1949	37

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	205
Karl Viljak	203
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	180
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	143
Oskar Philipp Kallas	135

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,804)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 7 (22), AES, MT 4, 1, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 27, 32/4, AES, MT 40, 20 (24), AES, MT 40, 23 (29), AES, MT 40, 26 (35), AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 60, AES, MT 43, 63, AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 44, 2, AES, MT 49, 17/8 (7), AES, MT 63, 3/5, AES, MT 65, 14, AES, MT 65, 15, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 70, 27, AES, MT 71, 31/2 (13), AES, MT 76, 1/2 (1), AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3), AES, MT 117, 65/6 (26), AES, MT 141, 3, AES, MT 141, 12/13, AES, MT 141, 32/3, AES, MT 141, 26a/26b, AES, MT 154, 14, AES, MT 154, 14/5, AES, MT 154, 17/8, AES, MT 174, 30, AES, MT 174, 36, AES, MT 183, 17/8, AES, MT 186, 110, AES, MT 186, 113/5, AES, MT 197, 29, AES MT 208, 20/1, AES MT 210, 20/1, AES, MT 219, 19, AES, MT 236, 58/9, AES, MT 261, 33/4, AES, MT 262, 11, AES, MT 282, 25, ARS 1, 411/3 (4), ARS 1, 435/7 (1), ARS 1, 454/5 (2), ARS 1, 483/7 (3), ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 543/4 (1), ARS 1, 666/8 (1), ARS 1, 804 (3), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 867 (2), ARS 2, 7/11 (2), ARS 2, 39/46 (6), ARS 2, 133/6 (19), E A 3 (1), E A 5/6 (6), E A 19 (1), E A 56 (99), E A 117/9 (2)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: kantaa

← kana kangas →

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.