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kivi

‘stone’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glossstone
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences23,892
By corpusSKVR 10,653, JR 5,998, KR 465 poems, ERAB 7,241

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

kivi, kiven, kiviä, kivet, kivellä, kivestä, kivelle, kivehen, kivile, kivist, kivistä, kivid, kivvee, kive, kiveä, kiveen, kiva, kivvi, kivvii, kivista, kiville, kiv, kivisse, kivee, kiveh, kiveltä, kivessä, kivillä, kivijä, kiveksi, kivehe, kivestäkö, kibi, kivve, kivistäkö, kiviin, kivoille, kivell, kivide, kivest … and 379 more of 419 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kivi · 9

(+5)

EMS

kivi

(+15)

kivi-

Idamurre

kivi

Seto

kivi

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 wordUsesShare
stone (stones, stone's, stones')30,84899.3%
stony1690.5%
little400.1%
Uses counted31,075

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
kiuas3,354533
kylmä3,207673
kuuma2,788369
kirjava2,153447
kätkeä1,988332
kanto1,954424
kolo1,859304
kirves1,730510

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 typePoems
Käärmeen sanat434
Verensulku268
Kiven vihat249
Käärmeen synty244
Polvenhaava228
Liiri-lõõri!225
Kalevanpojan kosto190
Pakkasen sanat182

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Narvusi538
Suistamo411
Vuokkiniemi400
Setumaa374
Soikkola343
Ilomantsi258
Lempaala246
Kuusalu212
Karksi197
Kontokki188

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1600–16091
1650–16591
1660–16692
1670–16792
1690–16995
1700–170930
1730–17392
1750–17592
1760–17699
1770–17795
1780–178981
1800–180922
1810–1819123
1820–1829204
1830–1839497
1840–1849806
1850–1859693
1860–1869153
1870–1879728
1880–18893,004
1890–18992,534
1900–19091,252
1910–19191,341
1920–1929981
1930–19392,468
1940–1949519
1950–1959378
1960–1969263
1970–19791

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot764
Kaarle Krohn641
Volmari Porkka404
D. E. D. Europaeus339
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori332
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 16,412)
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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.