leidma

‘find’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	find
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	6,168
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 6,168

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

leidsin, lei, leidis, leian, leiad, leie, leidnud, leia, leiab, leisi, lövvä, leidsid, leidsi, leida, leitsin, leietakse, leidemaie, leidma, leisin, leid, leidamaie, leind, leitud, leiti, levad, lövvät, lövvat, lövvääs, löüdse, leidas, leidsime, leiame, leidanessa, leiän, leidi, leietanne, leidema, leiaks, leidanesse, leitakse … and 145 more of 185 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

leidma · leian 46

1. otsides v. juhuslikult midagi v. kedagi märkama v. kätte saama, millegi v. kellegi asupaika v. olemasolu avastama
2. mingit asjaolu, olukorda v. seisundit märkama, nägema v. avastama (2. täh.)
3. arvama, arvamusele jõudma, arvamusel olema
4. (osaks) saama, pälvima; midagi saavutama, millenigi jõudma

EMS

leidma

(otsides)
kedagi, midagi märkama, kellegi, millegi asupaika avastama
surma saama
leiutama

(+4)

Idamurre

leidma

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
find (found, finds, finding)	8,189	98.6%
hit	73	0.9%
strike (struck)	13	0.2%
leave (left)	12	0.1%
give (gave)	11	0.1%
Uses counted	8,309

Example verses

leidis toru vilebuu (AES, MT 3, 18) read in context
Found a pipe's whistling sound,
leiad lehmalta vasika (AES, MT 3, 21/2) read in context
You'll find a calf from the cow,
sina tend ei leia (AES, MT 28, 5/6) read in context
you will not find it???
kivi katski lei (AES, MT 34, 6/8) read in context
The stone split it found.
sis lei ma jalga maad vasta (AES, MT 40, 11/2 (16)) read in context
Then my foot found the ground,
leisi ma kurõ kunnu alt (AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19)) read in context
I found under a wretched stone,
emänd lei mullõ kulbiga (AES, MT 64, 32/3) read in context
The mistress gave me a ladle,
leit oli tagant lõhkine (AES, MT 70, 34) read in context
[They] are torn at the back.

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
mets	2,160	515
pöörama	1,978	304
külm	1,215	226
sealt	1,162	270
külg	1,160	235
ees	1,112	282
sein	974	204
rubla	909	130

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
Öösel üksi	169
Arg kosilane	164
Teng, hobu, naine	108
Nuttev tamm	85
Tähemõrsja	77
Neli neidu	76
Salme	75
Ema haual	74

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	233
Kolga-Jaani	139
Karksi	134
Haljala	132
Viljandi	124
Ambla	120
Helme	114
Kuusalu	96
Jõhvi	96
Paistu	87

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	7
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	5
1850–1859	5
1860–1869	33
1870–1879	339
1880–1889	971
1890–1899	1,168
1900–1909	276
1910–1919	289
1920–1929	480
1930–1939	556
1940–1949	33

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	112
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	99
Oskar Philipp Kallas	76
Karl Viljak	70
Gustav Seen	63

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,455)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 18, AES, MT 3, 21/2, AES, MT 28, 5/6, AES, MT 34, 6/8, AES, MT 40, 11/2 (16), AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 64, 32/3, AES, MT 70, 34, AES, MT 76, 34/5 (6), AES, MT 102, 13, AES, MT 102, 25 (1), AES, MT 102, 27 (1), AES, MT 102, 31 (1), AES, MT 102, 32 (2), AES, MT 117, 68/9 (31), AES, MT 130, 32/3 (3), AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 141, 28/30, AES, MT 141, 26a/26b, AES, MT 147, 1, AES, MT 163, 4/7 (3), AES, MT 173, 6, AES, MT 174, 28/9, AES, MT 183, 16, AES, MT 188, 53/4 (1), AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 200, 64/5, AES, MT 200, 69/71, AES, MT 230, 3/5, AES, MT 230, 10, AES, MT 236, 29/30, AES, MT 247, 53, AES, MT 247, 54, AES, MT 262, 10, ARS 1, 411/3 (4), ARS 1, 421/4 (2), ARS 1, 483/7 (3), ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 643/5 (1), ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 807 (1), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 859/60 (4), ARS 2, 250 (18), ARS 2, 251 (19), ARS 2, 252 (20), ARS 2, 283 (51), ARS 2, 287 (55), ARS 2, 310 (78), ARS 2, 345 (112), ARS 2, 379 (146b), ARS 2, 387 (153), E A 55 (96), E A 97, E A 98, E A 117/9 (2), E A 145/6 (15), E A 202/3 (12), E A 203/4 (14)

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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.