lind

‘bird’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	bird
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	10,017
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 10,017

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

linnukene, lindu, linnu, linnud, lind, linnule, linda, linnul, lindude, lindo, linnukõisi, lindudele, linnuksed, lindudest, linde, linnukse, linnukeist, lindidega, linnuga, lindike, lindusid, linnukõ, linnulõ, linnuks, linnusse, lindudeksi, lindai, lindakene, lindudel, lindudesta, lindse, lindudega, lindul, linduseida, lindä, lindõnes, linnnud, lindaks, lindal, lindale … and 30 more of 70 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

lind · linnu 22

1. tiibade ja sulgkattega kahejalgne selgroogne loom
2. (inimese kohta:)
3. mesilane, mesilind

EMS

lind

lind
(kergete elukommetega naisterahvast)
putukas
mesilane

(+3)

Idamurre

lind

metsloom

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
bird (birds, bird's, birds')	11,798	98.9%
little	5,114	42.9%
ribbon (ribbons)	71	0.6%
like	28	0.2%
birdie	18	0.2%
linda	18	0.2%
fly	14	0.1%
Uses counted	11,930

Example verses

aavikust jua alli lindu (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
From the wilds, a bird by the water's edge,
kiur liur linnukene (AES, MT 3, 25) read in context
Chirruping little bird,
kutsus kokku kurvad linnud (AES, MT 3, 25) read in context
He summoned the black birds together,
kutsus kokku kurvad linnud (AES, MT 3, 26) read in context
Summoned the sorrowful birds together,
moned linnud mune tüöle (AES, MT 19, 2) read in context
some birds to egg-work.
tütärlaits mul linnukene (AES, MT 34, 1/3) read in context
My daughter, little bird,
sis maks laula linnu keeli (AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17)) read in context
Then I’ll sing in birds’ tongues,
tulõ no lindu nüssä lehmä (AES, MT 40, 29/30 (40)) read in context
"Come, birds; let the cows graze,

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
tütarlaps	2,687	375
kurb	2,457	439
vaga	2,164	265
kukkuma	1,924	454
tõbi	1,826	242
sõsar	1,765	425
laulma	1,649	522
must	1,418	493

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
Suude sulg	352
Küla ütel	215
Ema haual	171
Venna sõjalugu	132
Loomine	125
Arg kosilane	114
Haned kadunud	108
Valu	100

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	287
Paistu	267
Halliste	259
Kuusalu	258
Karksi	249
Haljala	236
Tarvastu	192
Helme	185
Viljandi	159
Jõhvi	144

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	3
1840–1849	6
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	53
1870–1879	329
1880–1889	1,340
1890–1899	1,723
1900–1909	393
1910–1919	408
1920–1929	543
1930–1939	789
1940–1949	36

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	176
Karl Viljak	163
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	136
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	97
Oskar Philipp Kallas	94

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,996)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 3, 25, AES, MT 3, 25, AES, MT 3, 26, AES, MT 19, 2, AES, MT 34, 1/3, AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 29/30 (40), AES, MT 43, 59, AES, MT 43, 67, AES, MT 43, 91/2, AES, MT 44, 2, AES, MT 45, 9/10, AES, MT 49, 21/2 (10), AES, MT 54, 5/8 (8), AES, MT 57, 35, AES, MT 60, 37 (27), AES, MT 70, 34, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 88, 35, AES, MT 88, 36/7, AES, MT 102, 24, (3), AES, MT 102, 34 (4), AES, MT 117, 69/70 (33), AES, MT 137, 20/1 (2), AES, MT 141, 4, AES, MT 141, 6/7, AES, MT 141, 14, AES, MT 141, 22, AES, MT 141, 24/5, AES, MT 186, 111/2, AES, MT 186, 113, AES, MT 197, 4/5, AES MT 208, 20/1, AES, MT 230, 3/5, AES, MT 258, 18, AES, MT 262, 7, ARS 1, 437/41 (2), ARS 1, 501/5 (11), ARS 1, 543/4 (1), ARS 1, 868 (5), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), ARS 2, 132 (18), ARS 2, 147 (28), E A 25 (7), E A 26 (2), E A 69/70 (127), E A 79 (149), E A 81/2 (152), E A 94, E A 98, E A 104 (2), E A 130/3 (5), E A 147 (1), E A 162/4 (5), E A 172/4 (2), E A 191/3 (2)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: lintu

← liha linn →

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.