katsuma

‘touch; try’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	touch; try
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	4,790
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 4,790

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

katsu, katsumaie, katsun, katsuma, katsub, katsumata, katsus, katsutakse, katsud, katsin, katsund, katsumine, katsma, katsuda, katsiti, katsume, katsutie, katsuks, katsusin, katsuti, katsildõ, katsumassa, katsudessa, katsusid, katsunud, katsute, katsutud, katsuvad, katsuvada, katsuge, katsutasse, katsnud, katsumas, katsumaje, katsumasta, katsata, katsvad, katsumista, katsõ, katsatõli … and 86 more of 126 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

katsuma · 43

1. käega, sõrmedega (harvem jalaga) puudutama, puudutades kompama
2. (hrl. koos -infinitiiviga:) midagi teha püüdma, üritama, proovima
3. millegi sobivust, teat. seisundit, tugevust, kordaminekut vm. järele proovima, kontrollima
4. maitsma, maitset proovima; pisut sööma v. jooma

(+2)

EMS

katsuma

(midagi teha)
püüdma; üritama
proovima, katsetama
millegi sobivust, tugevust vm proovima

(+18)

Idamurre

katsuma

vaatama

Seto

katsuma

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 · 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
test (tested, testing, tests)	1,721	30.8%
try (tried, tries, trying)	1,613	28.9%
touch (touched, touches, touching)	1,493	26.7%
check (checks, checking)	187	3.4%
taste (tasted, tasting, tastes)	144	2.6%
untested	117	2.1%
untouched	111	2.0%
feel (felt)	51	0.9%
attempt (attempts, attempted)	27	0.5%
look	26	0.5%
Uses counted	5,582

Example verses

katsu meie kalaleiba (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Taste our fish bread,
kaval järgi katsumaie kaske (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
Cunningly probing, oh birch.
katsun läbi kasuka põue kaske (AES, MT 43, 55) read in context
I test through the fur coat's pocket, birch,
katsu võti katussesta katri (AES, MT 43, 76) read in context
Try the key from the roof, Katri,
katsun kakku ei kahanend (AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2)) read in context
Tasted cake, it didn't shrink.
katsun koa kanamunada (AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17)) read in context
Try also a chicken egg,
kissi katsub kallastesta (AES, MT 60, 33 (20)) read in context
The cat gropes from the bank,
läks ta kamri katsus kuorta (AES, MT 66, 1/2) read in context
went to the pantry, checked cream.

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
kiik	1,849	360
kaval	1,677	199
kala	1,028	270
minema	958	538
kahanema	756	89
kargama	689	158
kalaleib	657	54
kallis	642	206

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
Kiige katsumine	117
Mardilaul	104
Ori lahkub	61
Kallis kiik	59
Võta naine töölt	50
Kadrilaul	43
Põlvist põdema	39
Tõbine naine	37

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Haljala	237
Kuusalu	218
Jõhvi	152
Ambla	125
Kadrina	121
Kolga-Jaani	109
Väike-Maarja	90
Tõstamaa	89
Muhu	82
Koeru	79

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	5
1850–1859	4
1860–1869	11
1870–1879	216
1880–1889	916
1890–1899	1,149
1900–1909	285
1910–1919	372
1920–1929	322
1930–1939	419
1940–1949	34

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	159
Karl Viljak	135
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	133
Oskar Philipp Kallas	108
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	90

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,957)

ERAB: AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 55, AES, MT 43, 76, AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 60, 33 (20), AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 74, 3, AES, MT 76, 16/7 (9), AES, MT 76, 32/3 (4), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 88, 36, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 90, 7, AES, MT 141, 9, AES, MT 141, 12/13, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 141, 37, AES, MT 141, 38, AES, MT 174, 28/9, AES, MT 174, 30, AES, MT 174, 32/3, AES, MT 174, 37/8, AES, MT 174, 39, AES, MT 174, 40, AES, MT 188, 56 (3), AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES MT 208, 20/1, AES, MT 222, 30/1, AES, MT 252, 7, AES, MT 262, 16/7, AES, MT 262, 32/3, AES, MT 282, 24, ARS 1, 425/6 (3), ARS 1, 487/9 (4), E A 20/1 (3), E A 32 (48), E A 62/3 (113), E A 74/5 (138), E A 140/1 (11), E A 201 (9), E A 205/7 (1), E A 258/60 (22), E A 269 (29), E A 308/14 (2), E A 328/9 (14), E A 348/50 (9), E A 365/7 (12), E A 382/1 (11), E A 432/5 (1), E A 437/9 (3), E A 581/2 (10), E A 587 (10), E A 627/8 (15), E A 693/4 (12), E A 695/6 (14), E A 709/12, E A 728/30 (4), E A 750 (713a)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: katsoa

← katsoa kaunis →

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.