kissa
‘cat’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | cat |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 7,291 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,907, JR 3,384, KR 106 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
kissa, kissan, kissalle, kissalla, kissat, kiss, kissaa, kiissoin, kissani, kissal, kissapa, kissakin, kissam, kissoin, kissale, kissain, kissallen, kissall, kissalta, kissaki, kissankin, kissoja, kissula, kissaŋ, kissoi, kissoille, kissai, kissaj, kissalleen, kissim, kissoa, kissakaan, kissalt, kissar, kissas, kisson, kisalle, kissaani, kissako, kissaksi … and 41 more of 81 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EMS
kissa
- kass
- kiisu
Sources: EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| cat (cat's, cats, cats') | 9,929 | 97.3% |
| kati (kati's) | 63 | 0.6% |
| katti | 45 | 0.4% |
| kitty | 28 | 0.3% |
| even | 16 | 0.2% |
| shoo | 15 | 0.1% |
| too | 15 | 0.1% |
| fasten | 11 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 10,200 |
Example verses
- on siul kolme koriata kissaa (SKVR I2 1091.) read in context
"You have three fine cats, - kissan kirjakynsinensä (SKVR I3 1692.) read in context
With the cat's patterned claws. - tuli kissa vastah (SKVR I3 1796.) read in context
- kissa kiikutti lasta (SKVR I3 1797.) read in context
The cat rocked the child, - pikku kissain velkamiestä (SKVR I3 1822.) read in context
- pikku kissan velkamiestä (SKVR I3 1823.) read in context
The little cat's debt-collector-man. - tuli kissa kiijovasta (SKVR I3 1891.) read in context
A cat came from Kitee, - vai kissako siun kohtai (SKVR I4 646.) read in context
Or was it a cat that met you?
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kiikku | 5,811 | 547 |
| hypätä | 3,036 | 483 |
| his | 2,670 | 283 |
| vastaan | 2,217 | 362 |
| kirjava | 2,023 | 329 |
| kiire | 1,676 | 247 |
| kuolla | 1,414 | 327 |
| visu | 1,383 | 168 |
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).
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Uskela | 141 |
| Saarijärvi | 117 |
| Uusikirkko Vpl. | 59 |
| Alatornio | 53 |
| Kivennapa | 53 |
| Narvusi | 51 |
| Soikkola | 50 |
| Hattula | 50 |
| Koivisto | 50 |
| Sakkola | 43 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 8 |
| 1800–1809 | 1 |
| 1810–1819 | 14 |
| 1820–1829 | 16 |
| 1830–1839 | 34 |
| 1840–1849 | 130 |
| 1850–1859 | 125 |
| 1860–1869 | 13 |
| 1870–1879 | 12 |
| 1880–1889 | 231 |
| 1890–1899 | 208 |
| 1900–1909 | 307 |
| 1910–1919 | 1,000 |
| 1920–1929 | 299 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,288 |
| 1940–1949 | 162 |
| 1950–1959 | 264 |
| 1960–1969 | 372 |
| 1970–1979 | 4 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 146 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 135 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 120 |
| Artturi Railonsala | 119 |
| Saarijärven yhteiskoulu | 112 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,497)
- SKVR: SKVR I2 1091., SKVR I3 1692., SKVR I3 1796., SKVR I3 1797., SKVR I3 1822., SKVR I3 1823., SKVR I3 1891., SKVR I4 646., SKVR I4 687., SKVR I4 692., SKVR I4 1433., SKVR I4 1477., SKVR I4 2120., SKVR I4 2252., SKVR I4 2255., SKVR I4 2334., SKVR I4 2335., SKVR I4 2342., SKVR II 567., SKVR II 613., SKVR II 785., SKVR II 905., SKVR II 909 a)., SKVR II 962., SKVR III1 41., SKVR III1 132., SKVR III1 148., SKVR III1 159., SKVR III1 276., SKVR III1 287., SKVR III1 320., SKVR III1 322., SKVR III1 447., SKVR III1 461., SKVR III1 552., SKVR III1 567., SKVR III1 644., SKVR III1 657., SKVR III1 768., SKVR III1 771., SKVR III1 794., SKVR III1 884., SKVR III1 960., SKVR III1 1070., SKVR III1 1071., SKVR III1 1199., SKVR III1 1200., SKVR III1 1201., SKVR III1 1202., SKVR III1 1206., SKVR III1 1207., SKVR III1 1208., SKVR III1 1209., SKVR III1 1248., SKVR III2 1253., SKVR III2 1256., SKVR III2 1258., SKVR III2 1259., SKVR III2 1281., SKVR III2 1355.
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.