kantaa

‘carry’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	carry
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	7,873
By corpus	SKVR 4,814, JR 3,059, KR 388 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

kantoi, kannan, kantaa, kannat, kannettiin, kannoin, kannoi, kantamalla, kantamat, kannettihin, kantamaa, kannoit, kantakaa, kantamahan, kannettih, kantaman, kannoitteli, kandoi, kantaessa, kantamani, kantanut, kantais, kantaisin, kantant, kantaat, kannoittelen, kantavansa, kantavi, kantoit, kannettuis, kantakoon, kantamais, kantavat, kantamasi, kannoittelin, kandaa, kantaissa, kannettin, kantaisi, kantaka … and 134 more of 174 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
carry (carried, carrying, carries, carried's)	5,157	94.2%
bring (brought)	100	1.8%
bear (bears, bearing, born)	52	1.0%
stump (stumps)	25	0.5%
burden (burdens, burdened, burden's)	21	0.4%
carryings	20	0.4%
while	20	0.4%
thing (things)	19	0.3%
inquire (inquired)	12	0.2%
keep (kept)	12	0.2%
Uses counted	5,472

Example verses

koska kannoit kirjokannen (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
When did you carry the Sampo's lid?"
jo sie kannoit kirjokannen (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Now you've carried the adorned lid!"
jo sen kannoit kirjokannen (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
You've brought the patterned lid!"
tuuli kantoi tuuitteli (SKVR I1 16.) read in context
The wind carried and blew,
kuin on kannoit kirjokantes (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
"How you bear your patterned lid!"
jo sie kannoit kirjokannen (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
You already carried the patterned lid!"
kantoi puolen kirjokantta (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Bore half the patterned lid
kirjokansi kantamahan (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
The patterned lid to carry!"

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
karvajalka	2,050	221
antti	1,903	307
kohtu	1,890	215
vesi	1,309	663
karjala	1,265	196
missä	1,153	366
karhu	862	219
kataja	830	148

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
Tytärten hukuttaja	86
Jussi (Jus, Jukka)	78
Kanna korppi kaihoani	76
Suka mereen	56
Lemminkäisen virsi	54
Verensulku	50
Kukon ja kanan saunamatka	49
Raudan synty	47

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	202
Lempaala	168
Soikkola	148
Vuokkiniemi	112
Vuole	105
Kaprio	104
Sakkola	84
Suistamo	79
Ilomantsi	68
Uhtua	60

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1670–1679	1
1690–1699	5
1700–1709	5
1750–1759	3
1760–1769	2
1770–1779	2
1780–1789	11
1800–1809	3
1810–1819	17
1820–1829	68
1830–1839	173
1840–1849	322
1850–1859	344
1860–1869	66
1870–1879	120
1880–1889	594
1890–1899	437
1900–1909	323
1910–1919	396
1920–1929	114
1930–1939	675
1940–1949	116
1950–1959	108
1960–1969	133

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	391
Volmari Porkka	231
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari	148
A. D. Neovius	125
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	108

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,050)

SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 342., SKVR I1 347., SKVR I1 559., SKVR I1 559 a)., SKVR I1 569., SKVR I1 572., SKVR I1 642., SKVR I1 644., SKVR I1 651., SKVR I1 655., SKVR I1 656., SKVR I1 661., SKVR I1 661 c)., SKVR I1 662., SKVR I1 664., SKVR I1 665., SKVR I1 666., SKVR I1 668., SKVR I1 682., SKVR I1 683 a)., SKVR I2 702., SKVR I2 716., SKVR I2 718., SKVR I2 722 a)., SKVR I2 726., SKVR I2 728., SKVR I2 728 a)., SKVR I2 743., SKVR I2 744 b)., SKVR I2 757., SKVR I2 766., SKVR I2 767., SKVR I2 769., SKVR I2 772., SKVR I2 801., SKVR I2 802., SKVR I2 802 a).

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: kandma

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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.