kylä
‘village's’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | village's |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 13,850 |
| By corpus | SKVR 8,358, JR 5,276, KR 214 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.
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Attested wordforms
kylän, kylä, kylästä, kylässä, kylälle, kylähän, kyläst, kylin, kyläh, kyläss, kylestä, kyyltä, kyläni, kyläl, kulä, kylleä, kylömä, kyyltäni, kylle, kylleää, kuala, kylähä, kyläsä, kulähä, kylellä, kyläist, kyläsillä, kylil, kyläine, kyleltä, kulässä, kyle, kylijä, kyllääne, kyläle, kyläsille, culä, kyläjäni, kylävä, kuläpuolen … and 398 more of 438 attested forms
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
- miesten syvähän kylähä (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
- kussa kylin maahan käänty (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Where with kin he turned ground, - miesten suövähän kulähä (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
- kuhun kylin moahan keäntyi (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Where he turned with elbow, - miesten syönehen kylähän (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"To the man-eating village," - miesten syövähän kylähän (SKVR I1 43.) read in context
To the man-eating village, - lankenn on kylän rakiksi (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
Fallen as the village outcast, - miehen syövästä kylästä (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
From the man-eating 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 |
|---|---|---|
| kysyä | 3,031 | 635 |
| kylmä | 2,460 | 470 |
| käydä | 1,678 | 571 |
| ämmä | 1,563 | 355 |
| kiro | 1,395 | 174 |
| kylpy | 1,139 | 181 |
| nainen | 1,057 | 290 |
| kymmenen | 902 | 204 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Numeroloruja | 107 |
| Toisin toisessa talossa | 83 |
| Ison kotona ja toiselassa | 76 |
| Huolihevonen | 74 |
| Neuvo neittä nelinurkkaisessa | 70 |
| Sotamiehenotto | 70 |
| Ken valehteli veljen tyhjin tulleen? | 66 |
| Tulen sanat | 66 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Narvusi | 958 |
| Soikkola | 337 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 230 |
| Lempaala | 213 |
| Suistamo | 197 |
| Ilomantsi | 175 |
| Vuole | 169 |
| Sakkola | 153 |
| Moloskovitsa | 139 |
| Uhtua | 120 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 5 |
| 1700–1709 | 13 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 2 |
| 1780–1789 | 21 |
| 1800–1809 | 4 |
| 1810–1819 | 57 |
| 1820–1829 | 103 |
| 1830–1839 | 396 |
| 1840–1849 | 723 |
| 1850–1859 | 817 |
| 1860–1869 | 86 |
| 1870–1879 | 183 |
| 1880–1889 | 948 |
| 1890–1899 | 737 |
| 1900–1909 | 691 |
| 1910–1919 | 582 |
| 1920–1929 | 133 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,118 |
| 1940–1949 | 228 |
| 1950–1959 | 141 |
| 1960–1969 | 159 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 685 |
| Volmari Porkka | 438 |
| Jaako Länkelä | 282 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 271 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 241 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,168)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 117 c)., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 124., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 131 a)., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 305., SKVR I1 318., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 325., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 404., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 470., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 487., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 492., SKVR I1 499.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: küla
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.