küla
‘village’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | village |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 18,891 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 172 poems, ERAB 18,719 |
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.
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Attested wordforms
küla, külä, külas, külast, külasta, küllä, külaje, küläst, külad, külän, küläle, külässe, küli, külästä, küläna, killa, kulo, küil, kla, küilt, küläs, küläl, killale, kula, külen, küläje, külläl, küllad, külänä, külässa, külätse, selo, küilta, küläde, küllas, küläd, külanna, külist, kulas, külakese … and 227 more of 267 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
küla · 11
- 1. väikseim maa-asula
- 2. koht v. inimesed väljaspool kodu, eriti koht, kus võõrusel käiakse (tihti sisekohakäändeis adverbilaadselt)
- 3. külaline, külaonu, külatädi, võõras inimene
EMS
küla
- haldusüksus; asula, majapidamiste kogum
- inimeste elupaik
- väga tuntud, tunnustatud
- lähestikku asetsevate talude kogum (vastandina hajaasustusele), küla tuumosa
küla-
- külas paiknev, küla oma, külale iseloomulik
Idamurre
küla
- küla
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 senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| village | 74.0% |
| village's | 20.8% |
| villages | 3.0% |
| guest | 0.7% |
| visit | 0.3% |
| farm | 0.2% |
| enough | 0.2% |
| side | 0.2% |
| feast | 0.1% |
| villages' | 0.1% |
Example verses
- siis lääb kündees külaje (AES, MT 3, 10 (32)) read in context
- küla aga naised saivad märki (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
The village women noticed: - naeravad küla tütarlapsi (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
They laugh at the village girls, - külä sigadõlõ sigidust (AES, MT 28, 7/9) read in context
The village for pigs, their herding, - mitmes külas kasvamassa (Kalevipoeg 1) read in context
Growing in many villages, - külad jäävad kuulamaie (Kalevipoeg 2) read in context
Villages stay listening, - kuskil külas kõrtsidessa (Kalevipoeg 4) read in context
In any village, tavern, - küllap kasvid kuulsas külas (Kalevipoeg 6) read in context
Surely you grew in a famed village,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kuulama | 3,175 | 514 |
| kümme | 3,078 | 594 |
| minema | 2,339 | 1,587 |
| külm | 2,002 | 410 |
| kündma | 1,766 | 474 |
| ütlema | 1,680 | 556 |
| kukkuma | 1,428 | 443 |
| käima | 1,292 | 602 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Laulu võim | 496 |
| Suude sulg | 352 |
| Kust laulud saadud | 339 |
| Kust laulud | 258 |
| Küla ütel | 226 |
| Kass kaevus | 196 |
| Kaevul kosija | 184 |
| Arg laulik | 149 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Setumaa | 477 |
| Haljala | 390 |
| Kuusalu | 381 |
| Karksi | 322 |
| Paistu | 307 |
| Tarvastu | 248 |
| Viljandi | 235 |
| Halliste | 232 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 231 |
| Helme | 228 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 8 |
| 1830–1839 | 3 |
| 1840–1849 | 7 |
| 1850–1859 | 1 |
| 1860–1869 | 92 |
| 1870–1879 | 699 |
| 1880–1889 | 2,242 |
| 1890–1899 | 2,850 |
| 1900–1909 | 631 |
| 1910–1919 | 723 |
| 1920–1929 | 810 |
| 1930–1939 | 794 |
| 1940–1949 | 61 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 288 |
| Karl Viljak | 279 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 230 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 179 |
| Oskar Philipp Kallas | 163 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,483)
- KR: Kalevipoeg 1, Kalevipoeg 2, Kalevipoeg 4, Kalevipoeg 6, Kalevipoeg 8, Kalevipoeg 9, Kalevipoeg 10, Kalevipoeg 14, Kalevipoeg 15, Kalevipoeg 17, Kalevipoeg 19, Kalevipoeg 20, KR 37:6, KR 39:20, KR 50:22, Kanteletar 1:162
- ERAB: AES, MT 3, 10 (32), AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 28, 7/9, AES, MT 29, 3, AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 23/4 (30), AES, MT 40, 24 (32), AES, MT 40, 28/9 (39), AES, MT 43, 66, AES, MT 43, 67, AES, MT 43, 72, AES, MT 43, 86, AES, MT 44, 3/4, AES, MT 44, 4/5, AES, MT 45, 9/10, AES, MT 49, 17/8 (7), AES, MT 54, 4 (6), AES, MT 58, 3, AES, Mt 64, 26, AES, MT 70, 23, AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 15/7, AES, MT 88, 30/1, AES, MT 88, 36/7, AES, MT 99, 19/21 (9), AES, MT 100, 2, AES, MT 102, 24, (3), AES, MT 117, 51/52 (1), AES, MT 117, 54 (5), AES, MT 117, 54/5 (6), AES, MT 117, 69 (32), AES, MT 137, 12/4, AES, MT 141, 4, AES, MT 141, 17, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 141, 32/3, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 154, 17, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 174, 40, AES, MT 180, 7/8 (b), AES, MT 183, 14
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: kylä
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.