laulu

‘song’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	song
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	4,808
By corpus	SKVR 2,770, JR 2,038, KR 148 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

laulu, laulun, laulut, laululle, lauloa, laulua, lauluni, lauluja, lauluille, laululla, lauluin, laulujani, lauluu, lauluilla, laulujansa, laulujain, laulutta, laulujaan, laulaissa, laului, laulot, lauluani, laulusta, lauluun, laulujaini, laulussa, laulujen, laululoista, laulull, laulullani, laulunsa, lauluhun, lauluillen, laulullain, laulanen, lauluissaan, lauluista, lauluksi, laululoja, laululta … and 147 more of 187 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EMS

laulu-

laulmise

Sources: EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, 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')	4,337	98.1%
sing (singing)	50	1.1%
melodious	12	0.3%
little	11	0.2%
Uses counted	4,420

Example verses

laulu moalda langieuvi (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
Song fade from the land,
laulu moalda langieuve (SKVR I1 22.) read in context
Song from the land would perish!"
laulut moalta lankettuna (SKVR I1 44.) read in context
Songs from earth dropped
laulu maalta lankiaa (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Song from the land dwindles,
eikä ole lapsen laulu (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
Nor a child’s song—
lauluissansa lahoovi (SKVR I1 51.) read in context
Decays in his songs,
lauloa surattelevi (SKVR I1 71.) read in context
Began to sing a lament:
lauloa hyrehteli (SKVR I1 96.) read in context
Began to chant a song:

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
laulaa	770	192
laittaa	558	112
lapsi	461	184
lopettaa	431	49
lakkaelin	369	25
lähellä	322	42
langeta	297	50
laskea	262	62

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	75
Laulajan lopetussanoja	59
Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan	54
Ilokylässä syntynyt	52
Kanteleen soitto	50
Laulajan palkka	50
Laulan yheksän yötä	49
Kultapyörätammi	48

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	139
Lempaala	113
Vuokkiniemi	77
Soikkola	62
Suistamo	62
Sakkola	61
Vuole	60
Ilomantsi	58
Repola	30
Metsäpirtti	29

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	1
1690–1699	1
1700–1709	5
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	3
1760–1769	3
1780–1789	10
1800–1809	1
1810–1819	14
1820–1829	46
1830–1839	184
1840–1849	232
1850–1859	215
1860–1869	53
1870–1879	64
1880–1889	267
1890–1899	227
1900–1909	174
1910–1919	188
1920–1929	47
1930–1939	268
1940–1949	48
1950–1959	52
1960–1969	75

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	261
A. D. Neovius	104
Volmari Porkka	84
D. E. D. Europaeus	66
Fr. A. Saxbäck	58

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,182)

SKVR: SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 111., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 146., SKVR I1 150., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 173., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 362 a)., SKVR I1 398., SKVR I1 415., SKVR I1 426., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 587., SKVR I1 589., SKVR I1 597., SKVR I1 597 a)., SKVR I1 607., SKVR I1 647., SKVR I1 665., SKVR I2 710., SKVR I2 758., SKVR I2 759 b)., SKVR I2 766., SKVR I2 784., SKVR I2 808., SKVR I2 811., SKVR I2 811 a)., SKVR I2 812., SKVR I2 849., SKVR I2 855., SKVR I2 950., SKVR I2 1010., SKVR I2 1020., SKVR I2 1026., SKVR I2 1105., SKVR I2 1123., SKVR I2 erill. [Lemminkäisen virsi] 1., SKVR I3 1274., SKVR I3 1275., SKVR I3 1277., SKVR I3 1283., SKVR I3 1286., SKVR I3 1288., SKVR I3 1295., SKVR I3 1299., SKVR I3 1301., SKVR I3 1312., SKVR I3 1313.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: laul

← laulma lehm →

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.