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kangas

‘cloth; heath’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glosscloth; heath
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences8,923
By corpusSKVR 3,213, JR 2,316, KR 282 poems, ERAB 3,394

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

kangas, kangasta, kangast, kankahalla, kanga, kankahalta, kankahalle, kankaan, kankahilla, kankahan, kankas, kangaste, kankahille, kankahasta, kankahat, kankaalla, kankaat, kangahalla, kangad, kankahia, kankasta, kankaalle, kankaaseen, kankahasen, kankaasta, kankoi, kankahilta, kankaita, kankahall, kankahal, kankaille, kangaid, kankahassa, kankahaalla, kangastessa, kankaalta, kankan, kangastesse, kankailla, kaŋŋasta … and 323 more of 363 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kangas · 20

EMS

kangas

(+3)

Idamurre

kangas

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 wordUsesShare
fabric (fabrics, fabric's, fabrics')5,13864.5%
heath (heaths)1,67721.1%
cloth (cloths, cloth's)5547.0%
field2092.6%
moor (moors)1872.3%
wilderness801.0%
loom (looms)650.8%
forest550.7%
Uses counted7,966

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
kuduma13,6311,550
kutoa3,233470
karhu2,594445
kajahduttaa2,261216
kaputella99085
kuduja978132
kajahtaa80494
puola65697

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 typePoems
Tytärten hukuttaja148
Kust laulud saadud146
Tütarde tapja146
Raudan synty116
Laulu võim105
Raudan sanat105
Kust laulud99
Pääsuke86

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

PlacePoems
Narvusi268
Lempaala141
Vuokkiniemi138
Suistamo118
Soikkola109
Vuole97
Sakkola96
Setumaa93
Kuusalu93
Uhtua83

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1690–16991
1700–17096
1730–17391
1750–17591
1760–17692
1770–17791
1780–178917
1800–18091
1810–181937
1820–182955
1830–1839213
1840–1849356
1850–1859286
1860–186959
1870–1879260
1880–18891,146
1890–18991,075
1900–1909425
1910–1919440
1920–1929319
1930–1939993
1940–1949185
1950–1959147
1960–1969112

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot400
Volmari Porkka164
Kaarle Krohn145
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori126
Frans Kärki123
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,270)
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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.