laul

‘song’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	song
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	6,361
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 6,361

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

laulu, laulud, laul, laulust, lauluga, laule, laalu, laulul, laulule, laulusid, laalud, laulta, laulukõnõ, lauluke, laulus, lauludega, lauludest, laulõ, laulude, lauluh, lauludesse, laolu, lauludeksi, lauluks, loulu, laulalõ, laulanesta, laulugagi, laolud, lauledesse, laulgi, lauludes, lauluje, laaludelle, laulatuist, lauled, laules, lauletuse, lauletusi, laulosida … and 23 more of 63 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

laul · -u 22

1. laulmine
2. see, mida lauldakse, lauldav pala
3. hrl. salmides ning refrääniga (lauldav v. laulmiseks sobiv) luuletus; van
4. jutt, lugu, joru

EMS

laul

lauldav pala
luuletus
laulmine
(inimhäälel)

(+6)

Idamurre

laul

nutt kisa

Seto

laul

laulu `laulu laul ma osta ail‿`laula `aŕssinagaʔ, mõõda ail‿`laula `meetrigaʔ (rhvl) Se; `lat́si kõ̭ õ̭ `aeti

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 · 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
song (songs, song's, songs')	5,700	98.1%
sing (singing, sang, sings)	60	1.0%
little	54	0.9%
dear	9	0.2%
laul	7	0.1%
Uses counted	5,811

Example verses

perremiis laul iks lavva takah (AES, MT 40, 8 (10)) read in context
The master's song is behind the table,
kohe ma iks laulu loodi (AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17)) read in context
Where I, indeed, created the song,
üts meid iks laulu lõpetagõ (AES, MT 40, 32 (43)) read in context
Let one of us end the song,
kust sie laps nied laulud võtnud (AES, MT 60, 37 (28)) read in context
seal mina kuultsin mitu laulu (AES, MT 62, 19/20) read in context
There I heard many songs,
kon minä laulu lahutasi (AES, Mt 64, 26) read in context
When I unleashed the song
et sii laulu tahetasse kaske (AES, MT 65, 11) read in context
That this song was desired, or what?
sial ma kuultsin mitu laulu (AES, MT 84, 1/2) read in context
There I heard many songs,

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
laps	4,889	879
kust	3,507	539
laulma	2,342	550
need	2,301	558
võtma	1,935	648
latikas	1,746	189
nina	1,156	193
laduma	1,084	150

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
Laulu võim	460
Kust laulud saadud	439
Kust laulud	325
Arg laulik	229
Lauliku vaev	124
Lauliku lapsepõlv	121
Lauliku sõim	113
Palju sõnu	103

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	244
Paistu	101
Tõstamaa	94
Kuusalu	91
Viljandi	89
Haljala	89
Tarvastu	85
Halliste	79
Kolga-Jaani	72
Helme	70

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	1
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	1
1860–1869	32
1870–1879	198
1880–1889	646
1890–1899	832
1900–1909	238
1910–1919	244
1920–1929	309
1930–1939	372
1940–1949	19

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	96
Karl Viljak	75
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	54
Joosep Hurt	50
Gustav Seen	47

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,096)

ERAB: AES, MT 40, 8 (10), AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 32 (43), AES, MT 60, 37 (28), AES, MT 62, 19/20, AES, Mt 64, 26, AES, MT 65, 11, AES, MT 84, 1/2, AES, MT 102, 8, AES, MT 102, 28 (2), AES, MT 141, 15/16, AES, MT 141, 32/3, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 154, 10, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 174, 39, AES, MT 183, 1, AES, MT 186, 113, AES, MT 205, 1/4, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 18/9, AES, MT 219, 18, AES, MT 257, 8/10, AES, MT 262, 19, ARS 1, 525 (1), ARS 1, 657/8 (1), ARS 1, 666/8 (1), ARS 1, 810 (5), ARS 1, 868 (6), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), E A 4 (3), E A 12/3 (21), E A 41 (67), E A 58 (105), E A 94, E A 105 (6), E A 105 (7), E A 107 (23), E A 124 (5), E A 155/6, E A 164/5 (6), E A 236/7 (5), E A 253/5 (19), E A 297/8 (11), E A 298/300 (12), E A 316/7 (3), E A 317/8 (4), E A 318 (5), E A 356/7 (2), E A 359/60 (6), E A 406 (14), E A 429/32, E A 453/4, E A 600 (2), E A 626 (12), E A 632/3 (3), E A 633 (4), E A 634 (5)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: laulu

← laud laulaa →

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.