karja
‘cattle’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | cattle |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 5,013 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,022, JR 1,990, KR 191 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
karjan, karja, karjaa, karjaan, karjani, karjat, karjasi, karjastani, karjoani, karjalle, karjaani, karjo, karjais, karjoi, karjoa, karjain, karjastain, karjoasi, karjah, karjalleni, karjassani, karjoille, karjojani, karjansa, karj, karjahan, karjoja, karjoin, karjass, karjoansa, karjaas, karjalla, karjaansa, karjaltaki, karjastan, karjaŋ, karjon, karjaes, karjai, karjall … and 127 more of 167 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 |
|---|---|---|
| cattle (cattle's) | 3,587 | 76.3% |
| herd (herd's, herds, herded) | 961 | 20.4% |
| livestock (livestock's) | 154 | 3.3% |
| Uses counted | 4,702 |
Example verses
- kuin lienet kalanen karja (SKVR I1 100.) read in context
If you are a fish school, - lassa karjan kattojana (SKVR I1 235.) read in context
As a child, guarding the cattle, - karja hanhin hartiolla (SKVR I1 376.) read in context
- joutsen karjan juonen päässä etc (SKVR I1 403 a).) read in context
Swan at the end of the herd's path, etc. - pääsky karjan päälaelta (SKVR I1 408.) read in context
From the swallow-flock's crown, - pääsky karjan päälaella (SKVR I1 421.) read in context
A swallow on the herd's back, - kuin ollet kalaine karja (SKVR I1 433.) read in context
- näki kalaizen karjan (SKVR I1 441.) read in context
Saw the fishy herd.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kello | 1,975 | 344 |
| katsoa | 1,236 | 283 |
| kuulla | 994 | 210 |
| katsoja | 843 | 95 |
| paimen | 642 | 131 |
| koti | 637 | 191 |
| karhu | 621 | 125 |
| kuri | 564 | 159 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Karhua vastaan | 239 |
| Kalevanpojan kosto | 98 |
| Muut kuuli kirkon kellon | 79 |
| Karjaa laitumelle laskettaessa | 69 |
| Nurmen neito | 68 |
| Kalervo ja Untamo | 54 |
| Sutta vastaan | 48 |
| Kutitin, kutitin kumppanini | 46 |
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 | 149 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 121 |
| Soikkola | 87 |
| Suistamo | 84 |
| Uhtua | 58 |
| Ilomantsi | 56 |
| Kontokki | 48 |
| Kaprio | 44 |
| Lempaala | 40 |
| Suomussalmi | 37 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 6 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 12 |
| 1800–1809 | 2 |
| 1810–1819 | 19 |
| 1820–1829 | 34 |
| 1830–1839 | 155 |
| 1840–1849 | 197 |
| 1850–1859 | 179 |
| 1860–1869 | 40 |
| 1870–1879 | 76 |
| 1880–1889 | 413 |
| 1890–1899 | 270 |
| 1900–1909 | 217 |
| 1910–1919 | 342 |
| 1920–1929 | 70 |
| 1930–1939 | 460 |
| 1940–1949 | 84 |
| 1950–1959 | 79 |
| 1960–1969 | 84 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 281 |
| Volmari Porkka | 108 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 86 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 80 |
| Jaako Länkelä | 56 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,752)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 235., SKVR I1 376., SKVR I1 403 a)., SKVR I1 408., SKVR I1 421., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 447., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 462., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 466., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 481., SKVR I1 489., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 504., SKVR I1 505., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 569., SKVR I1 622 a)., SKVR I1 628., SKVR I1 634., SKVR I1 698., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 6., SKVR I2 712., SKVR I2 713., SKVR I2 717., SKVR I2 749., SKVR I2 769., SKVR I2 814., SKVR I2 828., SKVR I2 830., SKVR I2 839., SKVR I2 912., SKVR I2 912 a)., SKVR I2 918., SKVR I2 924., SKVR I2 926., SKVR I2 928., SKVR I2 933., SKVR I2 936., SKVR I2 937., SKVR I2 941., SKVR I2 944., SKVR I2 951., SKVR I2 953., SKVR I2 960.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: kari
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.