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käsi

‘hand’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glosshand
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences28,325
By corpusSKVR 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

(+2)

EMS

käsi

(+135)

käsi

Idamurre

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 wordUsesShare
hand (hands, hand's, hands')47,03498.1%
käätyiset3030.6%
hide (hides)880.2%
Uses counted47,929

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
kindad3,452597
andma3,0871,272
antaa2,9981,739
käydä2,6641,110
kinnas1,529413
kääriä1,439263
keppi1,062266
kääbas954151

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 typePoems
Ema haual489
Tulen sanat336
Venna sõjalugu292
Memme vaev204
Tulen synty204
Sõjalaul203
Kanteleen soitto173
Kanteleen synty146

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

PlacePoems
Narvusi811
Setumaa719
Kuusalu624
Haljala462
Soikkola413
Karksi384
Vuokkiniemi380
Kolga-Jaani363
Paistu363
Ambla338

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1650–16591
1660–16691
1670–16791
1690–169917
1700–170925
1730–17393
1750–17595
1760–17697
1770–177913
1780–178964
1790–17991
1800–18099
1810–1819111
1820–1829191
1830–1839551
1840–1849927
1850–1859774
1860–1869245
1870–18791,247
1880–18894,375
1890–18994,521
1900–19091,661
1910–19191,766
1920–19291,481
1930–19392,773
1940–1949399
1950–1959252
1960–1969242
1970–19791

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot975
Volmari Porkka478
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch416
Karl Viljak399
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov350
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 22,552)
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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.