kukk

‘rooster’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	rooster
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	4,611
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 4,611

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

kuke, kukk, kuked, kukke, kukeni, kukekene, kukel, kukkedelle, kukõ, kukked, kukest, kukekese, kukele, kukekesta, kukkedele, kuketa, kukes, kuketagi, kukkõ, kukikene, kukedelle, kukukõnõ, kukeke, kukeks, kukkesida, kukega, kukkeni, kukkekene, kukukese, kukesse, kukkede, kukkes, kukelegi, kukad, kukedele, kukedeni, kukekesi, kukekest, kukesida, kuket … and 40 more of 80 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kukk · kuke 23

1. kana isaslind
2. mõne muu kanalise isaslind (hrl. liitsõna järelosana)
3. (mehe, ka nooruki kohta)
4. tulirelva (hrl. jahipüssi, revolvri) vinn, vinnastusseade, eriti selle nähtav osa

(+1)

EMS

kukk

kodulind, kukk
väga vara
väga vara
tulekahju (lahti)

(+2)

kukk

soasulane

Idamurre

kukk

Moistatuste

kukk

ka: õis, õiekobar, õienupp; kupar; käbi

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 · Mõistatuste murdesõnad

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
rooster (rooster's, roosters)	4,945	95.8%
little	117	2.3%
until	111	2.2%
cuckoo (cuckoos)	74	1.4%
cockcrow	23	0.4%
bag	22	0.4%
cock (cocks)	17	0.3%
dawn	16	0.3%
all	13	0.3%
sack	13	0.3%
Uses counted	5,162

Example verses

musta kuke kullale (AES, MT 3, 2 (3)) read in context
For the black rooster's darling.
kuulin kuke laulemaie (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
I heard the rooster singing,
kukk tuli kuldse kaarikuga (AES, MT 3, 26) read in context
The rooster came with a golden chariot,
siis piad kuulma kuke ääle (AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6)) read in context
Then you must heed the rooster
kukk oli kana kannustanud katri katri (AES, MT 43, 61/2) read in context
The rooster had spurred the hen, Katri, Katri.
kukekene kanakene (AES, MT 49, 19 (8)) read in context
Little rooster, little hen.
kukk jäi kõrva kõkutama (AES, MT 60, 32/3 (19)) read in context
The rooster stayed at the edge to crow,
pandi kuked kündämä (AES, MT 100, 1) read in context
Set the roosters to plowing,

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
laulma	3,116	613
kuld	2,781	577
kana	2,278	498
kuulma	2,207	498
kus	1,531	442
kartma	1,256	205
hääl	1,125	215
kord	920	195

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
Imemaa	171
Hiire pulmad	110
Ema haual	79
Mardilaul	72
Hiie noormees	65
Imed	51
Mehetapja	51
Hiie noorem poeg	47

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	110
Karksi	110
Halliste	99
Kolga-Jaani	81
Paistu	77
Viljandi	71
Muhu	70
Haljala	68
Helme	67
Ambla	67

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	2
1840–1849	4
1850–1859	1
1860–1869	25
1870–1879	185
1880–1889	616
1890–1899	784
1900–1909	177
1910–1919	221
1920–1929	272
1930–1939	413
1940–1949	28

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	82
Karl Viljak	69
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	69
Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)	55
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	52

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,926)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (3), AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 26, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 43, 61/2, AES, MT 49, 19 (8), AES, MT 60, 32/3 (19), AES, MT 100, 1, AES, MT 137, 12/4, AES, MT 141, 8, AES, MT 141, 21, AES, MT 163, 10/12 (6), AES, MT 174, 45, AES, MT 186, 112, AES, MT 200, 64/5, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES MT 208, 17, AES, MT 266, 7/9, ARS 1, 707 (1), ARS 1, 820 (18), E A 24/5 (6), E A 57 (101), E A 58 (104), E A 105 (5), E A 108 (28), E A 151/2 (7), E A 156/62 (4), E A 178/80 (4), E A 182/4 (6), E A 264/7 (26), E A 377 (6), E A 409/13 (1), E A 437/9 (3), E A 443/4 (5), E A 548 (5), E A 554 (14), E A 603/6 (582), E A 733 (1), E A 757 (3), E A 769/70 (2), E A 794/5 (5), E A 825/7 (4), E A 831/2 (9), E A 914 (26), E A 945 (8), E A 981/2 (12), E A 1041/6 (15), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 147, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 5/11p-5/12, EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 6, l. 11p-12 (13), EKLA, f. 96, m. 4: 13, l. 4p-5 (3), EKmS 4° 1, 13 (16), EKmS 4° 1, 63 (86), EKmS 4° 1, 160 (248), EKmS 4° 1, 169/70 (264), EKmS 4° 1, 179/80 (277), EKmS 4° 1, 185/6 (286), EKmS 4° 1, 347/8 (15), EKmS 4° 1, 358/9 (28), EKmS 4° 1, 413 (15)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: kukko

← kubjas kukko →

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.