laulma

‘sing’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	sing
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	19,029
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 19,029

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

laula, laulemaie, laulda, laulab, laulis, lauli, laala, laulamaie, laalan, laulad, laulema, laulaks, laalemaie, laulaksin, laulsid, laulas, laulge, laulma, laulvad, lauldes, laulsin, laulid, laulva, laalab, laulame, laulevada, laalda, lauletama, laulnud, laulõmahe, laalad, laalevada, laulama, laulemata, laulavad, laulgem, laulkõ, laulemahe, laulemasta, laulevaie … and 316 more of 356 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

laulma · laulan 44

1. hääleelundite abil teat. rütmi ja kõrgusega helide jada kuuldavale tooma
2. midagi luulendama, luules ülistama
3. rääkima

EMS

laulma

laulma (inimesest)
(mõistatustes)
rääkima
palju, tüütult või ebameeldivat juttu rääkima

(+11)

Idamurre

laulma

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 word	Uses	Share
sing (sang, singing, sings, sung)	23,394	97.6%
laala	124	0.5%
song (songs)	104	0.4%
unsung	94	0.4%
let (let's)	43	0.2%
crow (crowed)	42	0.2%
lullaby	40	0.2%
while	26	0.1%
Uses counted	23,975

Example verses

lähme aga lauldes laia metsa (AES, MT 3, 9 (29)) read in context
"Let us go singing to the wide forest,"
küll laulaksin kui tohiksin (AES, MT 3, 11 (36)) read in context
I would sing if I dared indeed,
mis laulad sina sinine (AES, MT 3, 11 (37)) read in context
Why do you sing, blue one?
kuulin kuke laulemaie (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
I heard the rooster singing,
laola laola nokokene (AES, MT 28, 10/1) read in context
Sway, sway, little beak-child.
mina laula laaderiku (AES, MT 34, 5) read in context
I sing a little song,
laulu lauli tõist murõhti (AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17)) read in context
Singing the song, another was broken.
õdagult um hüä laulda (AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37)) read in context
In the evening, it is good to sing,

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
luulema	4,747	511
hakkama	4,740	1,167
laan	3,373	577
kukk	3,116	613
laskma	3,013	922
tohtima	2,982	451
külalapsed	2,408	251
laul	2,342	550

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	928
Arg laulik	576
Lauliku sõim	510
Kust laulud saadud	435
Suude sulg	428
Halb laulik	414
Kust laulud	331
Küla ütel	260

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	444
Setumaa	418
Haljala	335
Kolga-Jaani	268
Paistu	244
Ambla	226
Karksi	225
Halliste	207
Kadrina	201
Viljandi	197

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	10
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	8
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	71
1870–1879	623
1880–1889	2,031
1890–1899	2,409
1900–1909	622
1910–1919	892
1920–1929	825
1930–1939	916
1940–1949	47

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	365
Karl Viljak	340
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	242
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	208
Oskar Philipp Kallas	151

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,008)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 9 (29), AES, MT 3, 11 (36), AES, MT 3, 11 (37), AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 28, 10/1, AES, MT 34, 5, AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37), AES, MT 43, 59, AES, MT 43, 67, AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 49, 14/5 (5), AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 54, 1/2 (2), AES, MT 60, 35 (23), AES, MT 60, 37 (27), AES, MT 62, 18, AES, MT 65, 11, AES, MT 65, 15, AES, MT 66, 3/4, AES, MT 70, 34, AES, MT 76, 10 (2), AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 99, 8/10, AES, MT 102, 8, AES, MT 102, 21 (4), AES, MT 102, 28 (2), AES, MT 117, 57/8 (11), AES, MT 117, 61 (17), AES, MT 117, 62 (19), AES, MT 117, 66 (27), AES, MT 141, 4, AES, MT 141, 11, AES, MT 141, 14, AES, MT 141, 15, AES, MT 141, 22, AES, MT 141, 32/3, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 154, 5, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 163, 15/17 (8), AES, MT 166, 2/3 (1), AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 174, 35, AES, MT 174, 37/8, AES, MT 174, 39, AES, MT 186, 110, AES, MT 188, 54/5 (2), AES, MT 197, 4/5, AES, MT 197, 28, AES, MT 197, 28, AES, MT 200, 64/5, AES, MT 205, 1/4, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 32/3, AES, MT 219, 18, AES, MT 230, 13/4, AES, MT 236, 31, AES, MT 257, 8/10

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: laulaa

← laulaa laulu →

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.