luoja

‘Creator’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	Creator
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	5,641
By corpus	SKVR 3,598, JR 2,043, KR 274 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

luoja, luojan, luojoi, luojo, loojoi, luojal, luoia, luaja, luojat, luojoa, luojalt, luojas, loojo, luojasen, luojua, luojalleesen, luoje, luojoit, luojaŋ, luajalt, luojaseme, loojoil, luajale, luajapa, luoija, luojah, luojai, luojasel, luojasengo, luojau, luojav, luojazel, luojoil, luojuemma … and 1 more of 35 attested forms

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
creator (creator's, creators, creators')	6,634	96.9%
god (god's)	168	2.5%
create (created)	10	0.1%
Uses counted	6,844

Example verses

luo luoja luo jumala (SKVR I1 80.) read in context
luojoa parempi (SKVR I1 115.) read in context
Superior to the Creator,
loput luo luoja luotoloikse (SKVR I1 131.) read in context
"Let the Creator shape remnants,
luoja tietävi enemmän (SKVR I1 180.) read in context
The Creator knows more."
luoja tietäpi enemän (SKVR I1 181.) read in context
The Creator knows more,
luoja tietävi enämmän (SKVR I1 182.) read in context
The Creator knows more.
toimella totisen luojan (SKVR I1 298.) read in context
toimella totisen luojan (SKVR I1 298 a).) read in context

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
luoda	3,786	582
suuri	1,458	412
luonto	1,092	152
sormi	737	170
sopia	639	114
luottaa	634	70
luoma	596	64
varjella	596	78

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
Ylösnousemusvirsi	111
Hiiden sepän kahlinta	106
Verensulku	87
Tulen sanat	82
Raudan sanat	74
Tulen synty	69
Raudan synty	66
Käärmeen sanat	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	305
Suistamo	187
Vuokkiniemi	183
Soikkola	163
Kaprio	82
Lempaala	80
Ilomantsi	78
Korpiselkä	60
Suojärvi	54
Kontokki	49

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	19
1700–1709	12
1720–1729	1
1730–1739	2
1740–1749	1
1750–1759	8
1760–1769	3
1770–1779	2
1780–1789	21
1800–1809	4
1810–1819	48
1820–1829	59
1830–1839	236
1840–1849	300
1850–1859	264
1860–1869	65
1870–1879	102
1880–1889	660
1890–1899	418
1900–1909	298
1910–1919	185
1920–1929	46
1930–1939	385
1940–1949	75
1950–1959	69
1960–1969	63

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	401
Volmari Porkka	210
Kaarle Krohn	143
D. E. D. Europaeus	121
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	117

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,353)

SKVR: SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 131., SKVR I1 180., SKVR I1 181., SKVR I1 182., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 298 b)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 339 a)., SKVR I1 416., SKVR I1 426., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 499., SKVR I1 500., SKVR I1 589., SKVR I1 609., SKVR I1 670., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I1 674., SKVR I1 675., SKVR I1 676., SKVR I1 erill. [Laivaretki ja kantele] 1., SKVR I2 730., SKVR I2 744., SKVR I2 781., SKVR I2 797., SKVR I2 814., SKVR I2 827., SKVR I2 834., SKVR I2 847., SKVR I2 849., SKVR I2 867., SKVR I2 901., SKVR I2 1007., SKVR I2 1011., SKVR I2 1020., SKVR I2 1023., SKVR I2 1098., SKVR I2 1099., SKVR I2 1103 c)., SKVR I2 1105., SKVR I2 1105 a)., SKVR I2 1105 b)., SKVR I2 1106., SKVR I2 1108., SKVR I2 1109., SKVR I2 1111., SKVR I2 1113., SKVR I2 1115., SKVR I2 1117., SKVR I2 1118., SKVR I2 1119., SKVR I2 1120., SKVR I2 1121.

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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.