lammas
‘sheep’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | sheep |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 8,472 |
| By corpus | SKVR 1,994, JR 1,508, KR 127 poems, ERAB 4,842 |
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
lambad, lambale, lampahat, lamppa, lammad, lambaid, lammale, lambid, lamppan, lambus, lampahii, lambaasta, lambit, lammeriku, lutten, laamasen, lambeida, lamas, lampan, lammal, lampa, lamphan, loain, lambihi, lammerikku, lammoo, lamppak, loajan, lammastel, sampaita, lammerikud, lammõ, lamppat, lambahan, lambahat, lambhale, lampat, lammid, lamo, lampaal … and 573 more of 613 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
lammas · lamba 20
- 1. keskmise suurusega sõraline villkattega imetaja (Ovis);
- 2. (inimese kohta)
EMS
lammas
- koduloom, lammas
- sametlest
- (mäng)
- pajuurb
lammas-
- lamba-
Idamurre
lammas
- lammas
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 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 |
|---|---|
| sheep | 80.4% |
| sheep's | 14.5% |
| lamb | 2.0% |
| lamb's | 1.1% |
| lambs | 1.1% |
| among | 0.4% |
| little | 0.3% |
| lamp | 0.2% |
| pond | 0.2% |
| lamps | 0.2% |
Example verses
- lamp oli suuri lautasella (SKVR I1 58 a).) read in context
- laulo lambihi havoksi (SKVR I1 145.) read in context
Sang marshes into clearings, - laulo lambihi havoksi (SKVR I1 147.) read in context
Sang ponds into hawks, - noijunba lambihi kalaksi (SKVR I1 149.) read in context
I'll turn sheep into fish, - lammas läks laudile munele (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
A sheep went to the table for eggs, - lambust laiu latikaida (AES, MT 3, 16) read in context
"From the sheep, plentiful roach fish." - lambad laia väila peale (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Sheep onto the wide path. - lintulantu lambudissa (AES, MT 3, 22) read in context
Among birds and lambs,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| laud | 3,608 | 711 |
| laut | 2,523 | 359 |
| kaitsia | 1,885 | 175 |
| laug | 1,646 | 257 |
| villa | 1,475 | 283 |
| lapa | 1,204 | 162 |
| lausuja | 1,111 | 126 |
| määgima | 1,016 | 92 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Imed | 237 |
| Kits kile karja! | 188 |
| Parmu matus | 157 |
| Hollandi sulane | 99 |
| Hämeen ihmeet | 81 |
| Mardilaul | 80 |
| Lambamäng | 73 |
| Liiri-lõõri! | 72 |
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 | 116 |
| Setumaa | 110 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 76 |
| Uskela | 70 |
| Haljala | 69 |
| Karksi | 66 |
| Viljandi | 66 |
| Narvusi | 63 |
| välismaa | 60 |
| Pärnu-Jaagupi | 58 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 3 |
| 1700–1709 | 2 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 6 |
| 1810–1819 | 5 |
| 1820–1829 | 11 |
| 1830–1839 | 41 |
| 1840–1849 | 107 |
| 1850–1859 | 111 |
| 1860–1869 | 25 |
| 1870–1879 | 169 |
| 1880–1889 | 647 |
| 1890–1899 | 855 |
| 1900–1909 | 303 |
| 1910–1919 | 466 |
| 1920–1929 | 387 |
| 1930–1939 | 729 |
| 1940–1949 | 99 |
| 1950–1959 | 46 |
| 1960–1969 | 47 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 76 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 74 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 65 |
| Karl Viljak | 61 |
| Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) | 50 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,247)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 147., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 152., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 156 b)., SKVR I1 459., SKVR I1 482., SKVR I1 482 a)., SKVR I2 702., SKVR I2 702 a)., SKVR I2 703., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 705., SKVR I2 706., SKVR I2 712., SKVR I2 717., SKVR I2 718., SKVR I2 749., SKVR I2 757 a)., SKVR I2 777., SKVR I2 793 a)., SKVR I2 801., SKVR I2 811., SKVR I2 828., SKVR I2 850., SKVR I2 884., SKVR I2 886., SKVR I2 1035., SKVR I2 1091., SKVR I2 1179., SKVR I2 1213., SKVR I3 1423 a)., SKVR I3 1720., SKVR I3 1765., SKVR I3 1769., SKVR I3 1844., SKVR I3 1869., SKVR I3 1870., SKVR I3 1871., SKVR I3 1873., SKVR I3 1908., SKVR I3 1916., SKVR I3 1917., SKVR I3 1918., SKVR I3 1919., SKVR I3 1920., SKVR I3 1998., SKVR I3 2033., SKVR I3 2034., SKVR I3 2036., SKVR I3 2037., SKVR I3 2047., SKVR I4 419., SKVR I4 432., SKVR I4 548., SKVR I4 839., SKVR I4 841., SKVR I4 845.
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: lampaat
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.