kulkea

‘walk’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	walk
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	5,627
By corpus	SKVR 2,650, JR 2,977, KR 376 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

kulki, kulkemahan, kulkee, kulkemaan, kulkemassa, kulin, kulje, kulkea, kulkiessa, kulkemaa, kuljin, kulet, kulkenut, kulisi, kulkivat, kulkia, kulkevan, kulgi, kuljet, kuljen, kulkevi, kulen, kulkeepi, kulkevat, kulkenunna, kulkemah, kulit, kulitta, kulkiat, kulkii, kulie, kulkeissa, kulkenna, kuljettiin, kuljit, kulk, kulkemasta, kulkeissani, kulkipa, kulgija … and 377 more of 417 attested forms

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
walk (walked, walking, walks)	2,002	39.3%
travel (traveled, travels, traveling)	995	19.5%
go (went, goes, going, gone)	616	12.1%
wander (wandered, wandering, wanders)	568	11.1%
move (moving, moved, moves)	386	7.6%
while	118	2.3%
carry (carried, carries)	66	1.3%
pass (passed, passing, passes)	44	0.9%
wanderer (wanderers, wanderers')	43	0.8%
traveler (travelers)	34	0.7%
Uses counted	5,099

Example verses

siellä kulki kuusi vuotta (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
There he wandered six years,
sielä kulgi kuuzi vuotta (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
There he traveled six years,
sielä kulgi kuuzi vuotta (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
siel on kulgi kuusi vuotta (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
There he drifted six years,
tuolla kulki vuotta (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
There he drifted for years,
tuoll on kulgi kuusi vuotta (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
There he drifted six years,
siinä kulki vuotta (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
There passed a year,
siellä kulki vuotta (SKVR I1 12.) read in context
There passed a year.

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
tie	947	315
kulo	848	127
kulta	847	283
lähteä	766	251
myöten	717	177
vuosi	676	172
kuusi	668	251
kuja	643	141

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
Väinämöisen ammunta	89
Käärmeen sanat	80
Maailmansyntyruno	70
Käärmeen synty	65
Sammon taonta	63
Kanteleen soitto	62
Lemminkäisen virsi	58
Vieraalle maalle joutunut	57

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Vuokkiniemi	174
Narvusi	134
Suistamo	124
Ilomantsi	91
Kontokki	74
Sakkola	72
Soikkola	69
Uhtua	58
Korpiselkä	50
Lempaala	46

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	1
1690–1699	20
1700–1709	9
1750–1759	6
1760–1769	4
1770–1779	8
1780–1789	24
1790–1799	1
1800–1809	5
1810–1819	36
1820–1829	90
1830–1839	296
1840–1849	378
1850–1859	314
1860–1869	58
1870–1879	174
1880–1889	430
1890–1899	306
1900–1909	289
1910–1919	236
1920–1929	90
1930–1939	513
1940–1949	128
1950–1959	115
1960–1969	157

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	504
A. A. Borenius	113
D. E. D. Europaeus	112
Frans Kärki	87
Kaarle Krohn	86

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,700)

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: kulgema

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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.