kysyä
‘ask’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | ask |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 6,830 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,261, JR 2,569, KR 229 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.
Full dictionary entry · Search in the corpus · Geographic distribution
Attested wordforms
kysy, kysyi, kysyy, kysyin, kysyn, kyssyy, kysyvi, kyseli, kysyypi, kysyä, kysyttellöö, kysyt, kysele, kyssyyt, kysypi, kysyvät, kyssyit, kysys, kysymättä, kysyit, kysyisi, kysyvä, kysytä, kysymään, kysyttelöö, kyseleepi, kysynyt, kysymä, kyselemään, kyssyypi, kyselet, kysymätä, kysymää, kysyttihin, kyzyy, kyselöö, kysymässä, kyssy, kysyivät, kyselemmää … and 244 more of 284 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ask (asked, asks, asking) | 7,510 | 98.9% |
| repeatedly | 17 | 0.2% |
| inquire (inquired, inquires) | 16 | 0.2% |
| keep (kept, keeps) | 10 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 7,592 |
Example verses
- kysytäh soittoakseen (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Asked to play the music. - mitä sie minulta kysyt (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"What you ask from me, - mitäpä kysyt minulta (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
"What do you ask of me?" - mitäpä kysyt miulta (SKVR I1 54 a).) read in context
"Why question me, - kysyu vanhalta väinämöiseltä (SKVR I1 62.) read in context
(Asked old Väinämöinen:) - kysy väinämöinen (SKVR I1 80.) read in context
Väinämöinen asked: - kysy kynnyksen takoa (SKVR I1 104.) read in context
Asked to forge the threshold, - enkä kysy kullistasi (SKVR I1 108.) read in context
Nor ask for your gold,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kylä | 3,031 | 635 |
| kynnys | 2,877 | 407 |
| ulkona | 1,503 | 175 |
| ämmä | 1,451 | 289 |
| ennättää | 1,412 | 165 |
| uni | 1,305 | 305 |
| ulko | 850 | 104 |
| yli | 839 | 193 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Hiiri metsähän menevi | 242 |
| Uni ulkoa kysyy | 178 |
| Koi | 152 |
| Koin historiola | 150 |
| Polvenhaava | 108 |
| Oljamissa käynti | 104 |
| Myyty neito | 91 |
| Laivaretki | 81 |
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 | 516 |
| Soikkola | 272 |
| Lempaala | 173 |
| Vuole | 153 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 140 |
| Sakkola | 119 |
| Suistamo | 101 |
| Tyrö | 94 |
| Moloskovitsa | 91 |
| Rautu | 91 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 12 |
| 1700–1709 | 5 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1770–1779 | 12 |
| 1780–1789 | 13 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 28 |
| 1820–1829 | 56 |
| 1830–1839 | 248 |
| 1840–1849 | 410 |
| 1850–1859 | 462 |
| 1860–1869 | 56 |
| 1870–1879 | 104 |
| 1880–1889 | 789 |
| 1890–1899 | 651 |
| 1900–1909 | 558 |
| 1910–1919 | 494 |
| 1920–1929 | 112 |
| 1930–1939 | 887 |
| 1940–1949 | 220 |
| 1950–1959 | 215 |
| 1960–1969 | 200 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Volmari Porkka | 367 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 366 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 225 |
| Frans Kärki | 160 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 158 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,550)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 104., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 181., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 252., SKVR I1 258., SKVR I1 261 a)., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 283., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 291., SKVR I1 294., SKVR I1 298 b)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 306., SKVR I1 307., SKVR I1 310., SKVR I1 318., SKVR I1 319., SKVR I1 320., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 326., SKVR I1 328., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 339., SKVR I1 339 a)., SKVR I1 347., SKVR I1 440., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 454., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 498., SKVR I1 499., SKVR I1 504., SKVR I1 508.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: küsima
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.