käsi
‘hand’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | hand |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 28,325 |
| By corpus | SKVR 8,203, JR 5,312, KR 611 poems, ERAB 14,806 |
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
kätte, käsi, käe, kättä, käessä, käessa, käed, käsin, käte, kätta, käes, käet, käest, kätt, käesta, kädessä, kätehen, kässi, käteni, kädeje, kättee, käteen, käsissä, käässa, kääd, kää, käega, käeh, käde, kätensä, käel, käres, käjessä, käellä, käena, käele, kädet, käressä, kätteen, käestä … and 660 more of 700 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
käsi · käe, kätt 36
- 1. inimese v. ahvi ülajäse randmest sõrmeotsteni; ülajäse tervikuna, õlast kuni sõrmeotsteni
- 2. sümboliseerib isikut, kes midagi teeb (enamasti adjektiivide vm. sõnadega lähemalt määratletud)
- 3. sümboliseerib töötamist, tegutsemist, toimimist; võim, mõjuvõim
- 4. esineb ühendites, mis väljendavad ettepanekut abielluda, selle vastuvõtmist v. tagasilükkamist
EMS
käsi
- inimese ülajäse; labakäsi, kämmal
- kättpidi teretama või jumalaga jätma; kokkuleppe kinnituseks, leppimiseks kätt ulatama
- patsi lööma
- peos, käe otsas
käsi
- kinnasteta
- kaitse-, ründevahendita, relvata
- külakostita, kingituseta
- omandita, puruvaeselt
Idamurre
käsi
- käsi
Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut · Idamurde 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 |
|---|---|---|
| hand (hands, hand's, hands') | 47,034 | 98.1% |
| käätyiset | 303 | 0.6% |
| hide (hides) | 88 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 47,929 |
Example verses
- käsin kantervon asetan (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
- kuin käzi ulendänövi (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
- käzin keändu lainnehisse (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
- keändu käsin lainehilla (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
- kõik minu kääd kõik minu kääd (AES, MT 3, 3 (8)) read in context
All my hands, all my hands, - nüüd mardipää on jälle kääs (AES, MT 3, 4 (9)) read in context
Now the Mardi-head is here again, - sul põle kääs reisikeppi (AES, MT 3, 5 (13)) read in context
You've no walking-stick in hand, - kuivatas mind ema käsi (AES, MT 3, 7 (20)) read in context
Dried by my mother's hand.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kindad | 3,452 | 597 |
| andma | 3,087 | 1,272 |
| antaa | 2,998 | 1,739 |
| käydä | 2,664 | 1,110 |
| kinnas | 1,529 | 413 |
| kääriä | 1,439 | 263 |
| keppi | 1,062 | 266 |
| kääbas | 954 | 151 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Ema haual | 489 |
| Tulen sanat | 336 |
| Venna sõjalugu | 292 |
| Memme vaev | 204 |
| Tulen synty | 204 |
| Sõjalaul | 203 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 173 |
| Kanteleen synty | 146 |
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 | 811 |
| Setumaa | 719 |
| Kuusalu | 624 |
| Haljala | 462 |
| Soikkola | 413 |
| Karksi | 384 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 380 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 363 |
| Paistu | 363 |
| Ambla | 338 |
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 |
| 1670–1679 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 17 |
| 1700–1709 | 25 |
| 1730–1739 | 3 |
| 1750–1759 | 5 |
| 1760–1769 | 7 |
| 1770–1779 | 13 |
| 1780–1789 | 64 |
| 1790–1799 | 1 |
| 1800–1809 | 9 |
| 1810–1819 | 111 |
| 1820–1829 | 191 |
| 1830–1839 | 551 |
| 1840–1849 | 927 |
| 1850–1859 | 774 |
| 1860–1869 | 245 |
| 1870–1879 | 1,247 |
| 1880–1889 | 4,375 |
| 1890–1899 | 4,521 |
| 1900–1909 | 1,661 |
| 1910–1919 | 1,766 |
| 1920–1929 | 1,481 |
| 1930–1939 | 2,773 |
| 1940–1949 | 399 |
| 1950–1959 | 252 |
| 1960–1969 | 242 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 975 |
| Volmari Porkka | 478 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 416 |
| Karl Viljak | 399 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 350 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 22,552)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 31., SKVR I1 36., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 57., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 70., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 94., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97.
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.