kubjas

‘overseer’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	overseer
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	6,752
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 6,746

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

kubjas, kubja, kubjad, kubjast, kubjal, kubijas, kubija, kubjakene, kubjasta, kubjale, kubijasse, kubije, kubijal, kubijale, kubjaks, kubijilõ, kubjade, kubijalta, kubjalt, kubijad, kubijakene, kubijalt, kupjale, kubijide, kubijat, kubijile, kubijis, kubjalegi, kubijalle, kubijassa, kubjaaksi, kubjaga, kubjasse, kubijaksa, kubijel, kubjadelle, kubjatelle, kubijagi, kubijan, kubijes … and 87 more of 127 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kubjas · kupja 20

feodalismiaegne talupojast ametiisik, eelkõige mõisasundija, kes hrl. juhtis ja jälgis hobuste-härgadega tehtavat mõisatööd

EMS

kubjas

teoliste järelvaataja mõisatööl
(tagant)sundija, järelvaataja

Idamurre

kubjas

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
bailiff (bailiff's, bailiffs)	3,421	38.1%
overseer (overseer's, overseers)	2,952	32.9%
manager (manager's, managers)	1,133	12.6%
estate	1,047	11.7%
foreman (foreman's)	1,024	11.4%
steward (steward's)	346	3.9%
little	81	0.9%
elder	46	0.5%
village	46	0.5%
sheriff	32	0.4%
Uses counted	8,982

Example verses

kubjad adrakurgedesta (AES, MT 3, 10 (34)) read in context
Beadles from plow-cranes,
tuli aga kubjas mõisa puolta (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
Then came the bailiff from the manor,
kubjas mõõtis mõõdumaada (AES, MT 4, 2) read in context
The overseer measured the allotted land,
ma jää kurja kubja alla (AES, MT 43, 56/7) read in context
I stay under the evil bailiff,
kutsu kubjas süüma (AES, MT 43, 86) read in context
Invite the elder to eat.
tuli kubjas kuura puolta (AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4)) read in context
The bailiff came from Kuura's side
kolga kubjal kolmi tütart (AES, MT 60, 33/5 (21)) read in context
At Kolga’s steward’s, three daughters:
kuse mustal kubjal piima (AES, MT 66, 3/4) read in context
pour into the black vessel,

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
kuri	2,596	513
kurat	2,428	317
mõis	1,913	353
kullake	1,243	166
kilter	1,115	163
poolt	972	125
kilt	915	111
kuld	895	285

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
Kättemaks sakstele	224
Palve sakstele	165
Kubjas, lase lõunale!	138
Laulu võim	129
Kupja kolm tütart	111
Palve kupjale	109
Arg laulik	93
Kupja peksja	86

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Väike-Maarja	100
Paistu	93
Ambla	91
Haljala	90
Kolga-Jaani	86
Kadrina	74
Vigala	72
Tõstamaa	72
Peetri	71
Jõhvi	70

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	1
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	1
1850–1859	1
1860–1869	31
1870–1879	207
1880–1889	844
1890–1899	956
1900–1909	240
1910–1919	256
1920–1929	288
1930–1939	209
1940–1949	12

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	137
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	104
Gustav Seen	61
Karl Viljak	58
Peeter Penna	57

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,263)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 10 (34), AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 4, 2, AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 86, AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 60, 33/5 (21), AES, MT 66, 3/4, AES, MT 76, 8/9 (1), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 161, 23, AES, MT 217, 1/2, AES, MT 262, 25, AES, MT 262, 26, ARS 2, 74/6 (11), E A 11 (18), E A 12/3 (21), E A 20/1 (3), E A 26 (1), E A 34/5 (55, 56), E A 34 (54), E A 59 (107), E A 74/5 (138), E A 81/2 (152), E A 164/5 (6), E A 202 (10), E A 220 (14), E A 223/4 (268), E A 442/3 (3), E A 556 (16), E A 557 (18), E A 575/7 (2), E A 587 (10), E A 624/5 (9), E A 626 (12), E A 656 (27), E A 679/80 (14), E A 708 (678), E A 732 (7), E A 774/5 (6), E A 793/4 (4), E A 811/2 (1), E A 812/3 (2), E A 831/2 (9), E A 849/50 (12), E A 855/6 (3), E A 857 (5), E A 884/5 (9), E A 893/4 (17), E A 976 (3), E A 1006/8 (6), E A 1031/3 (7), E A 1039/41 (14), E A 1048 (19), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 135, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 143-144, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 145-146, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 167-168, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 2/4, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 5/9

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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.