karva

‘hair’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	hair
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	4,627
By corpus	SKVR 3,139, JR 1,488, KR 194 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

karva, karvat, karvan, karvasta, karvojasi, karvoista, karvana, karvaa, karvani, karvalla, karvoihisi, karvoja, karvalle, karv, karvahan, karvojas, karvasi, karwa, karvoa, karvahasi, karvain, karvahansi, karvoin, karvoisi, karvosta, karvaan, karvalta, karwan, karvah, karvansa, karwat, karvassa, karvo, karfwa, karvakaan, karvoasi, karwas, karvoihin, karvoille, karvai … and 175 more of 215 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

Seto

karva

värv(us)

Sources: Seto 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 word	Uses	Share
hair (hairs, hair's)	3,694	76.3%
fur (fur's, furs)	925	19.1%
hairy	243	5.0%
bristle	74	1.5%
little	32	0.7%
color	24	0.5%
furry	23	0.5%
Uses counted	4,841

Example verses

karvoja silittelöyve (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Stroking its hairs,
kohti karvalle piteli (SKVR I1 16.) read in context
Aimed toward Karva's direction,
karvasta kavon tekömän (SKVR I1 317.) read in context
From the hairy hollow's making,
karvah on isokapehen (SKVR I1 342.) read in context
To the great-narrow hair,
karva kulta toini hopia (SKVR I1 540.) read in context
One coat gold, another silver.
paremat koiran karvat (SKVR I1 566.) read in context
paremmat olis jänöllä karvat (SKVR I1 570.) read in context
"Better fur the hare would have,"
karva kulta toinen hopia (SKVR I1 658.) read in context
One golden-maned, another silver,

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
kanerva	2,428	270
kapea	1,954	200
kavio	1,053	126
toukka	851	138
kynsi	827	157
kaikki	810	264
kadota	700	123
katketa	570	90

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
Käärmeen sanat	350
Käärmeen synty	239
Karhua vastaan	94
Käärmeen pureman historiola	78
Syöttäkää, juottakaa, viekää suojaan vävyn hevonen	53
Vävyn virsi	50
Mahtuuko vävy tupaan?	49
Pistos	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
Vuokkiniemi	130
Ilomantsi	88
Suistamo	78
Uhtua	52
Kontokki	43
Juva	41
Suojärvi	41
Kitee	32
Narvusi	30
Pohjois-Pohjanmaa	30

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	1
1660–1669	1
1680–1689	1
1690–1699	4
1700–1709	14
1750–1759	1
1770–1779	2
1780–1789	24
1800–1809	15
1810–1819	63
1820–1829	80
1830–1839	208
1840–1849	245
1850–1859	96
1860–1869	22
1870–1879	86
1880–1889	457
1890–1899	243
1900–1909	134
1910–1919	157
1920–1929	45
1930–1939	296
1940–1949	49
1950–1959	35
1960–1969	47

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	304
Kaarle Krohn	168
D. E. D. Europaeus	76
K. A. Gottlund	69
Heikki Meriläinen	48

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,334)

SKVR: SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 342., SKVR I1 540., SKVR I1 566., SKVR I1 570., SKVR I1 658., SKVR I2 834., SKVR I2 937., SKVR I2 945., SKVR I2 1057., SKVR I2 1061., SKVR I2 1062., SKVR I2 1063., SKVR I2 1157., SKVR I3 1440., SKVR I3 1473., SKVR I3 1562., SKVR I3 1563., SKVR I3 1565., SKVR I3 1568., SKVR I3 1568 a)., SKVR I3 1570., SKVR I3 1573., SKVR I3 1573 a)., SKVR I3 1574., SKVR I3 1575., SKVR I3 1576., SKVR I3 1577., SKVR I3 1578., SKVR I3 1579., SKVR I3 1581., SKVR I3 1581 a)., SKVR I3 1582., SKVR I3 1587., SKVR I3 1588., SKVR I3 1590., SKVR I3 1591., SKVR I3 1593., SKVR I3 1596., SKVR I3 1692., SKVR I3 1732., SKVR I3 1732 a., SKVR I3 1955., SKVR I4 55., SKVR I4 67., SKVR I4 91., SKVR I4 105., SKVR I4 111., SKVR I4 120., SKVR I4 122., SKVR I4 156., SKVR I4 168., SKVR I4 185., SKVR I4 206., SKVR I4 216., SKVR I4 222., SKVR I4 279., SKVR I4 287.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: karv

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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.