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laine

‘wave’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glosswave
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences4,753
By corpusSKVR 1,640, JR 858, KR 200 poems, ERAB 2,255

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

lainehille, laine, lainehilla, laenetesse, lainetesse, lained, laineesse, laineelle, laineesta, lainehelle, lainehesta, lainehella, lainetta, laened, lainehesen, lainehista, lainnehilla, lainehilta, lainehen, lainehesse, lainte, laenetesta, lainehia, laineessa, laineella, laineen, laenetessa, laineet, lainehessa, lainele, laineelta, lainehelta, lainehet, laineid, laineida, lainete, laenetelle, laineeie, lainil, laente … and 218 more of 258 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

laine · 19

EMS

laine

Idamurre

laine

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 wordUsesShare
wave (waves, waves', wave's)5,45099.1%
waving180.3%
plank (planks)130.2%
tear (tears)110.2%
while100.2%
bay (bays)80.1%
Uses counted5,500

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
laskma2,351533
lai1,940394
laskea1,175219
lakea1,034105
sinervä85498
kevad836127
lagle67380
pale657123

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 typePoems
Laivaretki148
Maailmansyntyruno143
Väinämöisen ammunta106
Veneenveisto97
Käärmeen sanat96
Käärmeen synty94
Kanteleen soitto87
Kanteleen synty77

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Narvusi211
Vuokkiniemi166
Soikkola98
Karksi74
Kuusalu72
Setumaa67
Kaprio59
Kolga-Jaani59
Suistamo58
Paistu58

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1700–17092
1760–17692
1770–17792
1780–178920
1800–18093
1810–18199
1820–182969
1830–1839190
1840–1849187
1850–1859114
1860–186955
1870–1879266
1880–1889721
1890–1899592
1900–1909209
1910–1919156
1920–1929122
1930–1939212
1940–194933
1950–195916
1960–19698

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot282
Volmari Porkka196
A. A. Borenius111
D. E. D. Europaeus94
Jaako Länkelä64
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,064)
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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.