laulaa

‘sing’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	sing
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	13,922
By corpus	SKVR 8,514, JR 5,408, KR 424 poems, ERAB 0

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

laulan, laulo, lauloi, laulaa, laulamaan, lauloin, laulamahan, laulamaa, laulamalla, laulaisin, lauloit, laulamasta, laulettiin, laulon, laulasin, laulat, laulamassa, lauletahan, laulavat, laulavan, laulaat, lauletaan, laulaahan, laulamah, laulamme, laulaman, laulaessa, laulamaha, laulamahe, laulamatta, laulamma, laulaen, laulannalla, laulanpa, laulava, laulakaa, laolan, laulain, laulais, laulaisinpa … and 402 more of 442 attested forms

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
sing (sang, singing, sung, sings)	13,501	98.1%
crow (crowed, crowing, crows)	65	0.5%
indeed	64	0.5%
song (songs, song's, songs')	57	0.4%
let (let's)	48	0.3%
while	39	0.3%
singer (singers, singers', singer's)	21	0.2%
Uses counted	13,762

Example verses

kuink on jouten laulo (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
As he sang at leisure.
laulo vanha väinämöine (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
soitandua laulandua (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Playing, singing:
midä tässä laulanemma (SKVR I1 10.) read in context
What are we singing here,
joka lehvän laulamahah (SKVR I1 26 a).) read in context
Sing upon the leafy boughs."
laulo nään kultarinnan (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Sang up golden-breasted,
laulo neän kultarinnan (SKVR I1 30 a).) read in context
Sang the golden-breasted one,
laulo neän kultarinnan (SKVR I1 30 b).) read in context
The golden-breasted one sang,

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
lapsi	7,517	2,039
virsi	4,058	731
lintu	3,078	803
la	2,702	395
kukko	2,124	499
laiha	1,466	221
joutaa	1,110	227
univirsi	989	104

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
Laulajan alkusanoja	200
Silloin laulan, konsa joudan	157
Kultapyörätammi	153
Laulajan palkka	147
En ilolla laula	136
Kehoitus laulamaan	133
Kilpalaulanta	122
Kyllä on miulla virtosia	109

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Narvusi	520
Lempaala	337
Vuokkiniemi	304
Vuole	291
Soikkola	245
Sakkola	233
Rautu	182
Ilomantsi	164
Suistamo	159
Metsäpirtti	153

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	1
1700–1709	13
1750–1759	6
1760–1769	7
1780–1789	23
1800–1809	4
1810–1819	47
1820–1829	131
1830–1839	406
1840–1849	731
1850–1859	909
1860–1869	100
1870–1879	263
1880–1889	890
1890–1899	881
1900–1909	649
1910–1919	749
1920–1929	204
1930–1939	1,309
1940–1949	252
1950–1959	228
1960–1969	276
1970–1979	2

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	632
Volmari Porkka	359
D. E. D. Europaeus	304
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	277
A. D. Neovius	266

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,093)

SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 10., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 52., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 144., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 146., SKVR I1 147., SKVR I1 150., SKVR I1 151., SKVR I1 152., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 163., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 163 b)., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 168., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 172., SKVR I1 173., SKVR I1 177.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: laulma

← laul laulma →

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.