las
‘let’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish verb
| English gloss | let |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,634 |
| By corpus | SKVR 130, JR 64, KR 0, ERAB 4,440 |
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
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
Seto
las
- verbi `laskma imperatiivi lühivorm las no latsõk‿ka `puhkasõʔ
Sources: Seto 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 |
|---|---|---|
| let (lets, letting, let's) | 23,807 | 80.7% |
| release (released, releasing) | 1,500 | 5.1% |
| lower (lowered, lowers) | 1,443 | 4.9% |
| shoot (shot) | 962 | 3.3% |
| down | 690 | 2.3% |
| count (counted, counts) | 563 | 1.9% |
| child (children) | 322 | 1.1% |
| launch (launched, launching) | 206 | 0.7% |
| sail (sailed) | 189 | 0.6% |
| pour (poured) | 169 | 0.6% |
| Uses counted | 29,511 |
Example verses
- las vanki pakenemaan (SKVR III1 186.) read in context
"Let the prisoner escape!" - las sisolle olutta (SKVR III1 473.) read in context
"Give sister beer instead!" - las kyperä mua kyllää (SKVR III1 904.) read in context
"Let the hunchback feed me, - las la avittakkoon jumala (SKVR III2 1726.) read in context
May God indeed help, - possoo ruunad las nüüd käia (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
"Go on, steeds, let us ride, - las tuleb koeo teene venda (AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4)) read in context
Let the sauna's second brother come: - kui on käinud et las käia (AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6)) read in context
If they've come, let them come. - las tel sis ärä minnä minu tütär (AES, MT 117, 70 (34)) read in context
Then don't go there, my daughter,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| valama | 139 | 17 |
| kaitsma | 132 | 16 |
| la | 110 | 12 |
| palaa | 57 | 8 |
| laulaa | 46 | 11 |
| lauka | 40 | 4 |
| viilima | 34 | 3 |
| sulaa | 32 | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Kiik kiunub kindaid | 96 |
| Hiljuke | 93 |
| Lauliku sõim | 93 |
| Halb laulik | 75 |
| Laulu võim | 46 |
| Hiline | 37 |
| Kiige kidisemine | 37 |
| Ema haual | 33 |
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 | 170 |
| Haljala | 153 |
| Ambla | 130 |
| Kadrina | 120 |
| Koeru | 110 |
| Väike-Maarja | 78 |
| Jõhvi | 76 |
| Peetri | 68 |
| Helme | 66 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 61 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 2 |
| 1840–1849 | 18 |
| 1850–1859 | 16 |
| 1860–1869 | 17 |
| 1870–1879 | 160 |
| 1880–1889 | 605 |
| 1890–1899 | 758 |
| 1900–1909 | 214 |
| 1910–1919 | 330 |
| 1920–1929 | 179 |
| 1930–1939 | 225 |
| 1940–1949 | 20 |
| 1950–1959 | 4 |
| 1960–1969 | 7 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 187 |
| Karl Viljak | 138 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 80 |
| Peeter Penna | 79 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 66 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,692)
- SKVR: SKVR III1 186., SKVR III1 473., SKVR III1 904., SKVR III2 1726., SKVR III2 1751., SKVR III2 2403., SKVR III2 2548., SKVR III3 3024., SKVR III3 3234., SKVR III3 3562., SKVR III3 3849., SKVR IV2 1529., SKVR IV2 1533., SKVR IV2 1534., SKVR IV2 2578., SKVR IV2 2653., SKVR IV2 2728., SKVR IV2 2743., SKVR IV3 2790., SKVR IV3 3123., SKVR IV3 3298., SKVR IV3 3303., SKVR IV3 3311., SKVR IV3 3474., SKVR IV3 3530., SKVR IV3 3536., SKVR IV3 3539., SKVR IV3 3553., SKVR IV3 3653., SKVR IV3 3771., SKVR IV3 3794., SKVR V1 185., SKVR V2 3., SKVR V2 32., SKVR V2 93., SKVR V2 122., SKVR V2 130., SKVR V2 252., SKVR V2 267., SKVR V2 1123., SKVR V2 1136., SKVR V2 2067., SKVR V2 2288., SKVR V3 808., SKVR V3 liite 5., SKVR V3 liite 18., SKVR VI1 525., SKVR VII2 1573., SKVR IX3 297., SKVR XIII1 160., SKVR XIII1 1083., SKVR XIII1 1220., SKVR XIII1 1555., SKVR XIII1 1676., SKVR XIII1 1679., SKVR XIII1 1758., SKVR XIII1 1779., SKVR XIII1 1779 a., SKVR XIII1 1785., SKVR XIII1 1825.
Related lemmas
- Form of laskma
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.