kirkko
‘church’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | church |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 8,347 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,956, JR 3,391, KR 132 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
kirkon, kirkkoon, kirkko, kirkkoo, kirkkohon, kirkossa, kirkosta, kirkost, kirkolle, kirkkon, kirkoŋ, kirkkoja, kirkkuo, kirkkoa, kirkkoh, kirkhon, kirkot, kirkkosehen, kirkkosi, kirkoss, kirkkosee, kirkolta, kirkolla, kirkkoho, kirkkos, kircko, kirkkoseen, kirkollen, kirkkomoalle, kirkoksi, kircon, kirkhoon, kirkkhon, kirkoks, kirikköh, kirkkohe, kirkkoom, kirkossakin, kirkov, kirkkohoon … and 124 more of 164 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 |
|---|---|---|
| church (church's, churches, churches') | 9,379 | 99.8% |
| Uses counted | 9,394 |
Example verses
- jiesus kirkkohon mänöuve (SKVR I1 363 a).) read in context
(Jesus went to the church, - läksi kirkkoho kivasta (SKVR I1 370.) read in context
Set out from the stone church - ajo kirkkoh on kivasti (SKVR I1 372.) read in context
Drove to church skillfully, - kirkon kieravillaizie (SKVR I2 704.) read in context
Church's curly-flocked, - kirkon harjut haimentaa (SKVR I2 759.) read in context
Church spires disappeared. - tornit kirkon torjahteli (SKVR I2 1044.) read in context
- kivet on kirkkoa jälellä (SKVR I2 1047.) read in context
Stones of the church remain, - kivet on kirkkoja jälellä (SKVR I2 1049.) read in context
Stones left of churches,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| jörö | 8,517 | 709 |
| kello | 2,158 | 458 |
| humma | 2,060 | 192 |
| mennä | 1,778 | 715 |
| tuonne | 1,645 | 329 |
| huiskia | 1,435 | 212 |
| kivinen | 1,415 | 214 |
| kamari | 1,383 | 208 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Körö körö kirkkoon/tätilään/Huittisiin - kestitys | 687 |
| Niukahduksen historiola | 370 |
| Niukahdus | 362 |
| Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan | 309 |
| Eläinten pidot | 152 |
| Piu pau papinkello | 123 |
| Paise | 112 |
| Mikä tuolla näkyy? | 101 |
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 | 197 |
| Saarijärvi | 142 |
| Lempaala | 129 |
| Soikkola | 128 |
| Uskela | 107 |
| Vuole | 103 |
| Kivennapa | 68 |
| Rautu | 63 |
| Moloskovitsa | 62 |
| Sakkola | 59 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 7 |
| 1700–1709 | 8 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1740–1749 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 13 |
| 1800–1809 | 6 |
| 1810–1819 | 27 |
| 1820–1829 | 49 |
| 1830–1839 | 121 |
| 1840–1849 | 251 |
| 1850–1859 | 352 |
| 1860–1869 | 42 |
| 1870–1879 | 48 |
| 1880–1889 | 620 |
| 1890–1899 | 559 |
| 1900–1909 | 466 |
| 1910–1919 | 1,204 |
| 1920–1929 | 286 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,553 |
| 1940–1949 | 220 |
| 1950–1959 | 255 |
| 1960–1969 | 276 |
| 1970–1979 | 2 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 188 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 170 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 162 |
| Volmari Porkka | 156 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 140 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,385)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 363 a)., SKVR I1 370., SKVR I1 372., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 759., SKVR I2 1044., SKVR I2 1047., SKVR I2 1049., SKVR I2 1056., SKVR I3 1377., SKVR I3 1386., SKVR I3 1812., SKVR I3 1998., SKVR I3 2044., SKVR I4 157., SKVR I4 386., SKVR I4 467., SKVR I4 558., SKVR I4 763., SKVR I4 769., SKVR I4 774., SKVR I4 807., SKVR I4 838., SKVR I4 839 a)., SKVR I4 841., SKVR I4 843., SKVR I4 844., SKVR I4 1625., SKVR I4 1700., SKVR I4 1701., SKVR I4 1803., SKVR I4 1872., SKVR I4 2059., SKVR I4 2059 a)., SKVR I4 2115., SKVR I4 2317., SKVR II 116 a)., SKVR II 118., SKVR II 160., SKVR II 263., SKVR II 292 a)., SKVR II 293., SKVR II 688., SKVR II 791., SKVR II 1044., SKVR II 1050., SKVR II 1053., SKVR II 1061., SKVR II 1252., SKVR II 1287., SKVR II 1290., SKVR II 1292., SKVR II 1346., SKVR II 1347., SKVR II 1348., SKVR III1 39., SKVR III1 79., SKVR III1 85., SKVR III1 105., SKVR III1 129.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: kirik
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.