karu
‘bear’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | bear |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 5,829 |
| By corpus | SKVR 158, JR 181, KR 124 poems, ERAB 5,366 |
Counts cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; the KR figure counts poems rather than word tokens.
Full dictionary entry for karu · Search karu in the corpus
Attested wordforms
karu, kahru, karud, karul, karo, karule, kahr, karvu, karukene, karust, karrun, karaku, karüsõ, karuse, karusõ, karut, karus, kargut, karüs, karba … and 212 more of 232 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English across the corpus (top senses).
| Sense | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| bear | 8,197 |
| bear's | 1,418 |
| bears | 1,230 |
| little | 99 |
| bears' | 49 |
Example verses
- karummissa kankaissa (SKVR I4 459.)
- karu kataja kaitsijaksi (SKVR I4 1357.)
- karu oli murdnud musta ärja (AES, MT 3, 1 (1))
- karu kallis sõiduruuna (AES, MT 3, 6 (16))
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: karhu
Counts aggregate every sense and homonym of the written form shown above, as attested across the SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB corpora; the dictionary entry separates senses in detail.