linna

‘castle's’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	castle's
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	7,908
By corpus	SKVR 5,614, JR 2,224, KR 70 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.

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Attested wordforms

linnan, linna, linnassa, linnat, linnasta, linnaa, linnass, linnahani, linnah, linnastani, lin, lingen, linnaahe, linnajani, linne, linnahaa, linnastamme, linnal, linnussain, linnasessa, linnoinee, linnaava, linnaksi, linnasia, linnassuase, linnastaasen, linnolla, linnustahan, belingar, lannavaa, liimassa, liinalõ, liinijä, linassaa, linattii, linnahaaan, linnahansa, linnahasen, linnaihe, linnaihen … and 192 more of 232 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EMS

linna-

linna-

Seto

linna

rabati `lamba `nahka. nahk `pańti präälka pääle, lina rabajaga rabati siss Se

Sources: EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut · Seto sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut

English senses in context

How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.

Sense	Share
city	23.9%
town	23.3%
castle	20.8%
castle's	16.6%
city's	5.5%
town's	3.5%
castles	3.2%
cities	1.1%
flax	0.5%
fortress	0.4%

Example verses

linnan lusku luskuttaa (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
The keep's sluggard growl?"
mitä haukkuu linnan halli (SKVR I1 53.) read in context
"Why does the castle's gray one bark,
linnan lukki luiskuttele (SKVR I1 131 a).) read in context
The castle's bolt doesn't slide."
linnan lukku luikutteli (SKVR I1 214.) read in context
The castle's lock clatter?
linnan lukki luiskuttele (SKVR I1 280 a).) read in context
The castle’s lock does not rattle!"
linnan lukki luijottele (SKVR I1 433.) read in context
midä haukku linnan koira (SKVR I1 436.) read in context
"Why does the castle dog bark,
linnan lukki luikuttele (SKVR I1 439.) read in context
The castle's lock rattles,

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
liikkua	2,140	304
uusi	1,746	340
liha	1,354	317
liitää	1,209	122
lihottaa	921	84
läpi	921	190
alle	896	192
vanha	871	293

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
Leino leski	111
Kokkovirsi	86
Sotamiehenotto	79
Neidon linna	77
Sotasanomat	77
Laivaretki	75
Veneenveisto	70
Lohikäärme ja neito	63

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	496
Soikkola	286
Lempaala	170
Vuole	117
Suistamo	99
Vuokkiniemi	95
Ilomantsi	90
Sakkola	79
Kaprio	78
Moloskovitsa	71

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	1
1760–1769	2
1780–1789	8
1800–1809	1
1810–1819	11
1820–1829	46
1830–1839	162
1840–1849	380
1850–1859	486
1860–1869	57
1870–1879	103
1880–1889	694
1890–1899	426
1900–1909	343
1910–1919	233
1920–1929	71
1930–1939	347
1940–1949	82
1950–1959	56
1960–1969	35

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Volmari Porkka	395
Elias Lönnrot	251
D. E. D. Europaeus	201
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	177
Jaako Länkelä	144

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,560)

SKVR: SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 131 a)., SKVR I1 214., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 436., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 450., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 454., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 478., SKVR I1 479., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 481., SKVR I1 484., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 487., SKVR I1 489., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 491 a)., SKVR I1 492., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 499., SKVR I1 500., SKVR I1 501., SKVR I1 506., SKVR I1 507., SKVR I1 509., SKVR I1 512., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 523., SKVR I1 624., SKVR I1 628., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 1., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 6., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 4., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 5., SKVR I2 770., SKVR I2 853., SKVR I2 874., SKVR I2 989., SKVR I2 1040., SKVR I2 1042., SKVR I2 1044., SKVR I2 1047., SKVR I2 1048., SKVR I2 1049., SKVR I2 1050., SKVR I2 1051.

Related lemmas

Form of linn
Estonian cognate: linn

← linn lintu →

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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.