kaske

‘refrain word’ · runosong lemma · Estonian interjection

English gloss	refrain word
Part of speech	interjection
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	20,922
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 20,922

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

kaske

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kaske · interj

refräänsõna hrl. regivärsilistes tavandilauludes

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0)

Example verses

sõida sõida mu obune kaske (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
sööge langud jooge langud kaske (AES, MT 43, 55) read in context
kuule anne meie sõtsi kaske (AES, MT 45, 5/8) read in context
oodi ma omat ubinet kaske kaske (AES, MT 50, 4/5 (3)) read in context
mis sa ammud aher lehma kaske (AES, MT 65, 11) read in context
põld oo uus ja uutab meida kaske (AES, MT 65, 12/3) read in context
viisi mina ella einamaale kaske (AES, MT 65, 14) read in context
kaske kanke (AES, MT 102, 34 (4)) read in context

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
Mehetapja	49
Unenägu	22
Maie (ERAB)	21
Kalajõgi	18
Laulu võim	18
Tule mulle!	18
Laske kiigelt maha	17
Tule mulle	15

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Pärnu	160
Karksi	127
Halliste	115
Helme	107
Häädemeeste	84
Sangaste	76
Paistu	60
Tõstamaa	51
Urvaste	49
Tarvastu	47

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	1
1840–1849	1
1850–1859	1
1860–1869	81
1870–1879	54
1880–1889	261
1890–1899	300
1900–1909	178
1910–1919	169
1920–1929	187
1930–1939	235
1940–1949	22

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Leena Kase (Kaur)	78
Artur Martin	59
Tamberg, H.	58
Rudolf Tamm	53
Armas Otto Väisänen	51

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 1,619)

ERAB: AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 55, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 50, 4/5 (3), AES, MT 65, 11, AES, MT 65, 12/3, AES, MT 65, 14, AES, MT 102, 34 (4), AES, MT 117, 57 (10), AES, MT 137, 12/4, AES, MT 141, 5, AES, MT 141, 33, AES, MT 154, 1/2, AES, MT 154, 11/2, AES, MT 154, 14/5, AES, MT 154, 15, AES, MT 154, 16, AES, MT 154, 17/8, AES, MT 154, 18, AES, MT 205, 37, AES MT 210, 13/4, ARS 1, 910/13 (1), E A 103 (16), E A 127/8 (2), E A 128/9 (3), E A 129/30 (4), E A 130/3 (5), E A 139/40 (10), E A 225 (270), E A 226/7, E A 227/8, E A 228, E A 230, E A 233 (2), E A 409/13 (1), E A 517 (6), E A 522 (11), E A 563/4 (23), E A 575/7 (2), E A 577/8 (3), E A 578/83 (4), E A 579/80 (8), E A 580/1 (9), E A 581/2 (10), E A 586 (7), E A 618 (4), E A 622 (4), E A 625 (10), E A 756 (2), E A 758 (5), E A 1041/6 (15), EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 5/11p-5/12, EKmS 4o 1, 327 (5), EKmS 4° 1, 474/5 (17), EKmS 4° 1, 494/5 (39), EKmS 4° 1, 540/5 (4b), EKmS 4° 1, 643/4 (11), EKmS 4° 2, 76 (24), EKmS 4° 2, 549 (15), EKmS 4° 2, 584/5 (13)

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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.

Verses are found by the spellings listed above, so an occasional verse may show a different word spelled the same way.