laev

‘ship’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	ship
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,012
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,012

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

laeva, laevad, laev, laeba, laevaga, laevu, laevast, laevas, laivad, laeval, laiv, laevadest, laevudesta, laivukene, laevakene, laevale, laevaje, laevada, laevadeks, laevasta, laebad, laevade, laevadega, laevadesse, laevage, laevasse, laevudesse, laivu, laevadeksi, laevi, laevaasse, laevadele, laeve, laivadega, laevaalle, laevadelle, laevades, laevaessa, laevakane, laevassegi … and 15 more of 55 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

laev · -a 24

suur veesõiduk (vedamiseks, transportimiseks) v. ujuk (näit. ujuvkraana)

EMS

laev

veesõiduk, laev
paat
veimekirst
(kätkist)

(+2)

Idamurre

laev

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 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
ship (ship's, ships, ships')	4,153	96.8%
boat (boat's, boats)	81	1.9%
little	16	0.4%
small	9	0.2%
Uses counted	4,292

Example verses

laske laeva maale jõuda (AES, MT 3, 13) read in context
Let the ship reach land!
lats üsän laiv sällän (AES, MT 44, 2) read in context
The child grown, the boat on the sledge,
tegi tedre sulist laeva (AES, MT 163, 7/8 (4)) read in context
Made a ship from the grouse's feathers,
meite aga laev see ästi lippas (AES, MT 174, 42/3) read in context
But our ship swiftly dashed
kolme laeva mere ääres (E A 47/8 (88)) read in context
Three ships by the sea's edge
siis laev ja lained õõtsutavad (E A 119/20) read in context
Then ship and waves are rocking
üle laeva laste kätte kaske (E A 233 (2)) read in context
Over the ship to children's hands, birch.
ja selle lagund laeva peale (E A 281/3 (41)) read in context
And onto that broken ship

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
sõudma	2,204	281
laskma	2,061	441
lunastama	1,628	215
liikuma	1,511	209
jõudma	1,092	193
puri	901	118
sees	870	178
lagleluu	470	40

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
Lunastatav neiu	178
Laevasõit	94
Luust laev	64
Vahelt vaene	54
Neiu linn	48
Imemaa	41
Laevamäng	41
Imelik maja	38

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	63
Muhu	50
Tõstamaa	48
Pöide	45
Suure-Jaani	43
Kolga-Jaani	40
Haljala	37
Kadrina	34
Viljandi	33
Harju-Jaani	30

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	2
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	2
1850–1859	1
1860–1869	5
1870–1879	96
1880–1889	276
1890–1899	420
1900–1909	83
1910–1919	106
1920–1929	108
1930–1939	134
1940–1949	5

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Viljak	41
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	40
koguja teadmata	35
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	34
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	32

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 1,369)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 13, AES, MT 44, 2, AES, MT 163, 7/8 (4), AES, MT 174, 42/3, E A 47/8 (88), E A 119/20, E A 233 (2), E A 281/3 (41), E A 318/9 (6), E A 328/9 (14), E A 331/3 (17), E A 435/7 (2), E A 456/7 (2), E A 475/6 (1), E A 477/81 (2), E A 484/8, E A 491/2, E A 497/9, E A 501/3, E A 505/6, E A 523/6, E A 527/30, E A 532/4, E A 535/8, E A 571 (33), E A 626/7 (14), E A 663/7 (1), E A 685/6 (6), E A 738 (10), E A 849/50 (12), E A 877/8 (1), E A 927/31, E A 990 (2), E A 1061/4, EKmS 4° 1, 20/1 (26), EKmS 4° 1, 97/8 (148), EKmS 4° 1, 147 (227), EKmS 4° 1, 147/8 (228), EKmS 4° 1, 166 (259), EKmS 4° 1, 169/70 (264), EKmS 4° 1, 507/8 (6), EKmS 4° 1, 618/9 (2), EKmS 4° 1, 641/2 (9), EKmS 4° 2, 5/7 (2), EKmS 4° 2, 49 (4), EKmS 4° 2, 59 (13), EKmS 4° 2, 76 (24), EKmS 4° 2, 83/8 (2), EKmS 4° 2, 103 (15), EKmS 4° 2, 317/8 (24), EKmS 4° 2, 324/6 (34), EKmS 4° 2, 353/4 (64), EKmS 4° 2, 364 (77), EKmS 4° 2, 374 (88), EKmS 4° 2, 383/7 (95), EKmS 4° 2, 398 (105), EKmS 4° 2, 416/8 (127), EKmS 4° 2, 444 (10), EKmS 4° 2, 499 (3), EKmS 4° 2, 529/30 (35)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: laiva

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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.