lai

‘wide’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective

English gloss	wide
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	9,897
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 9,897

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

laia, laiad, lai, laiu, laial, laiasse, laiale, laiast, laias, laiada, laiassa, laiata, laiaks, laiukene, laiade, laemb, laiju, laiema, laio, laiemasta, laiula, lajas, laea, laiadesta, lajast, laiana, laijad, laiala, laiä, laiasid, laiulla, laiunõ, lajalta, laaks, laiaa, laiadega, laiaisse, laiani, laiemalla, laiemekaks … and 13 more of 53 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

lai · adj kõnek

1. ristsuunas suure ulatusega (pikliku eseme, ruumi, maa-ala vms. puhul); hrl. ant. kitsas
2. igas suunas suure ulatusega, avar, kaugele ulatuv
3. (hrl. millegi abstraktse kohta:) suure ulatusega, ulatuslik, avar
4. (kõne, laulu jm. kohta:) valjuhäälne (ja vabalt voolav)

(+1)

EMS

lai

suure ulatusega,
kitsas
halval(e) teel(e)
suure läbimõõduga

(+13)

lai

lahja
tailiha
puraviku torikosa

Idamurre

lai

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
wide (wide's, wider)	18,103	95.0%
broad (broad's)	574	3.0%
spread	103	0.5%
width	81	0.4%
flat	46	0.2%
widely	29	0.2%
broken	28	0.1%
Uses counted	19,060

Example verses

lase laia väila puolta (AES, MT 3, 2 (4)) read in context
Let the wide road's side [be opened],
leina laia lie paele (AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27)) read in context
Broad grief upon the board.
lähme aga lauldes laia metsa (AES, MT 3, 9 (29)) read in context
"Let us go singing to the wide forest,"
suure tüki laia laksu (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
A large tract, a wide strip,
lambust laiu latikaida (AES, MT 3, 16) read in context
"From the sheep, plentiful roach fish."
pikad lakad laiad pärjad (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Tall headdresses, wide wreaths:
tehke lahti laiad uksed (AES, MT 3, 22) read in context
Open wide the doors,
kes see lohkub lommud laiad (AES, MT 5, 4) read in context
Who carves the wide furrows,

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
leht	3,700	524
laan	3,621	544
laud	2,588	593
lint	2,297	298
laskma	1,969	595
laine	1,940	394
latergune	1,810	171
laug	1,659	269

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
Kalajõgi	118
Tunnen tuima neiu	116
Ema haual	104
Laulu võim	102
Tore neiu	102
Tule mulle!	99
Lõikuselaul - ÜLD	97
Tule mulle	95

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	347
Haljala	262
Kolga-Jaani	255
Paistu	246
Karksi	233
Ambla	224
Halliste	197
Kadrina	187
Viljandi	177
Tarvastu	174

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1640–1649	1
1820–1829	2
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	10
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	36
1870–1879	409
1880–1889	1,753
1890–1899	2,069
1900–1909	494
1910–1919	672
1920–1929	622
1930–1939	609
1940–1949	34

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	291
Karl Viljak	241
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	225
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	165
Oskar Philipp Kallas	153

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,169)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (4), AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27), AES, MT 3, 9 (29), AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 3, 16, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 3, 22, AES, MT 5, 4, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 43, 60, AES, MT 43, 89, AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 65, 12/3, AES, MT 66, 7, AES, MT 66, 8/10, AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 21, AES, MT 104, Kurgvel, AES, MT 117, 63/4 (23), AES, MT 141, 10/1, AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 141, 33, AES, MT 141, 36/7, AES, MT 141, 26a/26b, AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 200, 62, AES, MT 200, 67/8, AES, MT 219, 3, AES, MT 219, 18, AES, MT 219, 39/40, AES, MT 230, 6/7, AES, MT 261, 33/4, ARS 1, 633/5 (2), ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 1, 803/4 (2), ARS 1, 868 (4), ARS 2, 74/6 (11), E A 7 (9), E A 15 (25), E A 43/4 (77), E A 57 (103), E A 60/1 (109), E A 65/6 (120), E A 67/8 (124), E A 69/70 (127), E A 70/1 (129), E A 148 (2), E A 212 (3), E A 216/8 (15), E A 222/1 (16), E A 240/1 (8), E A 255/6 (20), E A 258/60 (22), E A 264/7 (26), E A 281/3 (41), E A 283/4 (42), E A 298/300 (12), E A 301 (14), E A 302 (15)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: laaja

← laev laine →

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.