katsoa

‘look’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	look
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	10,395
By corpus	SKVR 6,381, JR 4,014, KR 402 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

katso, katsomaa, katsoi, katsomahan, katsomaan, katsoin, katson, katsoo, kato, kahto, katsos, katsomassa, katsoit, katsot, katsomah, katsou, kattso, kahtoo, kattomaan, katsokaa, katsoa, katsonut, katsonoo, katsottu, katsomoa, katsoot, katsomatta, katsomaha, kattshou, kahtonoo, katsovi, katsoon, kattomahan, katsomahe, katsho, katscho, kattsou, katschoi, katsont, katshomah … and 530 more of 570 attested forms

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
look (looked, looks, looking, look's)	11,232	87.3%
watch (watched, watching, watches)	886	6.9%
see (seen, saw, seeing, sees)	177	1.4%
observe (observed, observes, observing)	105	0.8%
disappear (disappeared)	88	0.7%
let (let's)	66	0.5%
roof (roofs, roof's, roofed)	26	0.2%
consider (considered, considers)	25	0.2%
cover (covered, covering)	25	0.2%
observer (observers, observer's)	22	0.2%
Uses counted	12,859

Example verses

kattou on pesän sijoa (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
katso on kiven takoa (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Watched stone being shaped.
kattou lendäu koine kokko (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
katso viety on pohjan pursi (SKVR I1 26 a).) read in context
"See, the North's ship is taken,
katso tyynet katso tuulet (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Watch calms, watch winds,
katso illan katso aamun (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Watch the evening, watch the morning
päätä kassa katsomahan (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
To inspect the head's state,
kattso illat kattso oamut (SKVR I1 58.) read in context

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
mennä	3,523	1,327
kate	2,402	459
ikkuna	2,006	407
ken	1,969	457
karja	1,236	283
ylös	1,003	199
alas	972	172
kaikki	774	387

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
Kalervo ja Untamo	185
Kalevanpojan kosto	149
Suka mereen	121
Laivaretki	118
Kateen sanat	112
Lunastettava neito	101
Kanteleen synty	97
Veneenveisto	95

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	657
Soikkola	439
Lempaala	352
Vuokkiniemi	326
Suistamo	306
Sakkola	203
Vuole	198
Suojärvi	183
Kaprio	182
Ilomantsi	170

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	17
1700–1709	15
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	9
1760–1769	4
1770–1779	3
1780–1789	20
1800–1809	6
1810–1819	36
1820–1829	104
1830–1839	412
1840–1849	826
1850–1859	809
1860–1869	102
1870–1879	240
1880–1889	1,279
1890–1899	966
1900–1909	775
1910–1919	535
1920–1929	142
1930–1939	1,057
1940–1949	264
1950–1959	167
1960–1969	164
1970–1979	2

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	703
Volmari Porkka	516
D. E. D. Europaeus	342
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	294
Jaako Länkelä	256

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,971)

SKVR: SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 65., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 74., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 131 a)., SKVR I1 133., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 172., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 225., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 253., SKVR I1 254., SKVR I1 255., SKVR I1 257., SKVR I1 272., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 305., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 354., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 373.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: katsuma

← kasvama katsuma →

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.