kantaa
‘carry’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | carry |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 8,227 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,814, JR 3,059, KR 354 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.
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Attested wordforms
kanto, kantoi, kannan, kannat, kannettiin, kanno, kannoin, kantamaan, kantti, kannoi, kannettii, kannettu, kannetaan, kantamat, kannettihin, kannetaa, kannetahan, kantoo, kantamahan, kantamatta, kanteli, kannettuna, kannetut, kannetun, kannantahan, kannetti, kannettavan, kantamani, kantavalla, kannaa, kannettua, kantaisin, kantamilla, kannetusta, kantaminen, kantamasta, kantamista, kannoittelen, kantasin, kantakoo … and 766 more of 806 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| carry | 41.5% |
| carried | 37.6% |
| stump | 7.9% |
| carrying | 5.4% |
| carries | 3.9% |
| bring | 0.9% |
| carry! | 0.8% |
| bear | 0.7% |
| base's | 0.4% |
| stumps | 0.4% |
Example verses
- kirjokantta kandamahi (SKVR I1 3.) read in context
To bear the deck's pattern, - kirjokantta kandamah (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
To clutch the patterned lid, - siitä kanto kirjokannen (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Thence she bore the adorned lid. - väinämölle kirjokantta kantamah (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"To bring Väinö the kantele." - tuuli kantoi tuuitteli (SKVR I1 16.) read in context
The wind carried and blew, - kirjokantta kandamahi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
"To steal the patterned lid!" - tuuli kanto soaren luokse (SKVR I1 27.) read in context
"Wind bore him near an island." - kanto miehen pohjolaan (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Carried man to Northland,
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 |
|---|---|
| Ken söi kesävoin? | 234 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 126 |
| Kukon ja kanan saunamatka | 123 |
| Raudan synty | 112 |
| Raudan sanat | 106 |
| Antti | 102 |
| Jussi (Jus, Jukka) | 102 |
| Tytärten hukuttaja | 96 |
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 | 388 |
| Lempaala | 278 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 265 |
| Soikkola | 240 |
| Vuole | 174 |
| Suistamo | 149 |
| Sakkola | 148 |
| Ilomantsi | 148 |
| Kaprio | 112 |
| Uhtua | 108 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 9 |
| 1700–1709 | 12 |
| 1750–1759 | 4 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 23 |
| 1800–1809 | 7 |
| 1810–1819 | 62 |
| 1820–1829 | 114 |
| 1830–1839 | 360 |
| 1840–1849 | 643 |
| 1850–1859 | 562 |
| 1860–1869 | 81 |
| 1870–1879 | 262 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,011 |
| 1890–1899 | 834 |
| 1900–1909 | 583 |
| 1910–1919 | 817 |
| 1920–1929 | 271 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,302 |
| 1940–1949 | 250 |
| 1950–1959 | 185 |
| 1960–1969 | 222 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 602 |
| Volmari Porkka | 324 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 235 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 229 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 229 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,638)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 3., SKVR I1 5., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 27., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 41., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 100., 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 157., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 297., SKVR I1 309 a)., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 342., SKVR I1 362 a)., SKVR I1 423., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 434., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 503., SKVR I1 559., SKVR I1 559 a).
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: kandma
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.