kutsuma

‘invite; call’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	invite; call
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,542
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,541

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

kutsu, kutsus, kutsuti, kutsub, kuts, kutsi, kutsma, kutsumaie, kutsutie, kutsumata, kutsutakse, kutsumahe, kutsud, kutske, kutsund, kutsuma, kutsin, kutsume, kutsid, kutsmahe, kutsutasse, kutsutas, kutsõ, kutskõ, kutsusid, kutsutud, kutsum, kutsusin, kutsumista, kutsumada, kutsuh, kutsuda, kutsuta, kutsev, kutsuks, kutsuv, kutsmah, kutsuus, kutsku, kutsumae … and 155 more of 195 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kutsuma · 43

1. tegema ettepanekut v. korraldust tulla kuhugi, millestki osa võtma v. midagi tegema
2. ahvatlema, vastupandamatult meelitama; kaasa v. ligi tõmbama

EMS

kutsuma

kedagi paluma, kellelegi ettepanekut tegema kuhugi tulla, millestki osa võtta või midagi teha
(suremisest)
nimetama, hüüdma
loomi või linde heli, häälitsusega ligi meelitama

(+4)

Idamurre

kutsuma

Seto

kutsuma

mingit tegevust alustama, hakkama
salvama; nõelama;

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 word	Uses	Share
invite (invited, invites, inviting)	3,143	48.1%
call (called, calls, calling)	2,906	44.5%
uninvited	178	2.7%
summon (summoned, summons)	145	2.2%
dog	66	1.0%
invitation	35	0.5%
come	32	0.5%
Uses counted	6,531

Example verses

kutsus kokku kurvad linnud (AES, MT 3, 25) read in context
He summoned the black birds together,
kutsus kokku kurvad linnud (AES, MT 3, 26) read in context
Summoned the sorrowful birds together,
kutsu minno kaema (AES, MT 40, 28/9 (39)) read in context
Call me to witness,
kutsub liisut marit anne (AES, MT 43, 60) read in context
Calls Liisu, Mari, Anne,
siis kutsu rikkad ristikselle (AES, MT 43, 70/1) read in context
Then summon the rich to the high bench,
kutsu kubjas süüma (AES, MT 43, 86) read in context
Invite the elder to eat.
kutsunu minnu kosjulõ (AES, MT 44, 3) read in context
You invited me to the wooing,
ei kutsu küläst korjajata (AES, MT 45, 9/10) read in context
Don’t summon from the village untended,

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
kodu	1,790	577
pulm	1,262	213
kokku	1,064	203
ks	737	370
kuusik	695	127
kubjas	553	147
kuld	523	219
kull	518	107

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
Kull kutsumata	115
Tunnen tuima neiu	111
Tunnen tuima	90
Isa- ja mehekodus	49
Leinamäng	42
Neiu kutsub poisid metsa	42
Nukumäng	40
Lindude õlu	36

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	434
Paistu	105
Tarvastu	92
Kuusalu	90
Halliste	81
Haljala	77
Räpina	74
Kolga-Jaani	74
Karksi	72
Viljandi	70

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	7
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	1
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	26
1870–1879	244
1880–1889	701
1890–1899	884
1900–1909	187
1910–1919	189
1920–1929	368
1930–1939	543
1940–1949	35

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	79
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	77
Joosep Hurt	63
Oskar Philipp Kallas	53
Jakob Jagomann	52

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,373)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 25, AES, MT 3, 26, AES, MT 40, 28/9 (39), AES, MT 43, 60, AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 43, 86, AES, MT 44, 3, AES, MT 45, 9/10, AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6), AES, MT 55, 3, AES, MT 60, 35/6 (24), AES, MT 64, 23, AES, MT 88, 35, AES, MT 102, 33 (3), AES, MT 117, 51/52 (1), AES, MT 117, 57/8 (11), AES, MT 141, 28/30, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 154, 13, AES, MT 174, 32/3, AES, MT 174, 44, AES, MT 187, 36/7, AES, MT 200, 62, AES, MT 200, 63/4, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES MT 210, 6/8, AES, MT 219, 19, AES, MT 230, 13/4, AES, MT 230, 16/7, AES, MT 236, 32, AES, MT 236, 33, AES, MT 236, 49, AES, MT 236, 57, AES, MT 259, 1/6, AES, MT 262, 25, ARS 1, 540 (1), ARS 1, 543/4 (1), ARS 1, 633/5 (2), ARS 1, 735/8 (3), ARS 1, 812 (7), ARS 1, 818 (14), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 2, 74/6 (11), ARS 2, 227 (1), ARS 2, 263 (30), E A 11 (18), E A 43/4 (77), E A 97, E A 212/9 (4), E A 276/7 (36), E A 291 (1), E A 377 (7), E A 387/8, E A 390, E A 646/7 (17), E A 649/50 (20), E A 655/6 (26), E A 676/7 (10), E A 690 (8), E A 721/2 (1)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: kutsua

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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.