kirju

‘spotted’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective

English gloss	spotted
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,122
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,122

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

kirju, kirjud, kirjä, kirjust, kirjuid, kirjul, kirjus, kirjuks, kirjule, kirjakene, kirjude, kirjusta, kirjukene, kirjukõsõ, kirjun, kirjusid, kirjü, kirjevad, kirjüd, kirjuist, kirjuline, kirjudele, kirjuva, kirjäkene, kirjemad, kirjumad, kirjustele, kirjäde, kirjudeda, kirjudest, kirjueksi, kirjuseste, kirjusi, kirjusissa, kirjädegä, kirjässät … and 9 more of 45 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kirju · adj

1. läbisegi mitmest värvusest, mitmevärviline
2. koostiselt v. üldilmelt väga erinev ja ebaühtlane, väga eripalgeline; kirev

EMS

kirju

mitmevärviline; plekiline, lapiline
rästik
(uimasusest või pööritusest; kipitusest)
purjus

(+5)

Idamurre

kirju

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
spotted	3,276	35.9%
colorful (colorful's)	2,595	28.4%
variegated	942	10.3%
speckled	781	8.6%
patterned	420	4.6%
striped	419	4.6%
motley	307	3.4%
multicolored	199	2.2%
pattern (patterns)	51	0.6%
writing (writings)	35	0.4%
Uses counted	9,131

Example verses

kiili otsast kirjud püksid (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
From the wedge's end, striped pants,
kiskus ära kirju ärja (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
Tore apart the spotted ox,
kuurudellel kirjä küle (AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17)) read in context
The kuurudelle had speckled feathers,
päält kirjä kirälist (AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37)) read in context
From above, speckled chatterers,
pääl oll kirjä pärnäkirjä (AES, MT 40, 32 (43)) read in context
On it, a speckled linden-bark script.
kilter kirju koeraga (AES, MT 43, 52) read in context
Kilter with a spotted dog,
keskelt kirju linti (AES, MT 43, 78/9) read in context
From the center, a patterned ribbon,
kirjukõsõ kingu pääle (AES, MT 44, 2/3) read in context
On the colorful heel.

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
härg	2,577	501
kilter	2,516	298
kiskuma	2,434	345
kesk	1,806	321
koer	1,631	286
lind	1,354	304
kits	1,302	203
kirst	1,266	221

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
Venna sõjalugu	145
Härjad murtud	122
Sõjalaul	100
Kalajõgi	83
Mardilaul	63
Tule mulle!	62
Tule mulle	60
Ema haual	58

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	168
Paistu	139
Halliste	123
Tarvastu	120
Tõstamaa	117
Viljandi	97
Haljala	89
Muhu	88
Karksi	86
Saarde	81

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	5
1840–1849	3
1860–1869	19
1870–1879	180
1880–1889	851
1890–1899	1,012
1900–1909	237
1910–1919	231
1920–1929	333
1930–1939	419
1940–1949	22

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	104
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	81
Karl Viljak	70
Oskar Philipp Kallas	61
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	59

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,535)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37), AES, MT 40, 32 (43), AES, MT 43, 52, AES, MT 43, 78/9, AES, MT 44, 2/3, AES, Mt 64, 26, AES, MT 65, 11, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 86, AES, MT 88, 38/9, AES, MT 88, 39, AES, MT 88, 39, AES, MT 141, 15/16, AES, MT 141, 18/20, AES MT 208, 20/1, AES, MT 262, 18, AES, MT 262, 19, AES, MT 283, 8/9 (3), ARS 1, 817 (10), ARS 1, 849 (4), ARS 1, 900 (1), E A 3 (1), E A 5 (5), E A 28 (7), E A 32 (51), E A 39 (66), E A 51/2 (97), E A 70 (128), E A 81/2 (152), E A 98, E A 104 (1), E A 107 (24), E A 207/8 (2), E A 209/10 (5), E A 222/1 (16), E A 226/7, E A 232/3 (1), E A 233/4 (3), E A 242/4 (10), E A 292/3 (4), E A 308/14 (2), E A 336 (22), E A 390, E A 397 (3), E A 413/9 (2), E A 419/27 (3), E A 428 (5), E A 451 (16), E A 451/2 (17), E A 456/7 (2), E A 551/2 (11), E A 559/62 (21), E A 626/7 (14), E A 627/8 (15), E A 630/1 (2), E A 633 (4)

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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.