lyödä

‘hit’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	hit
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	8,356
By corpus	SKVR 3,797, JR 4,559, KR 312 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

löi, lyö, lyövän, löin, lyöpi, lyöty, lyönyt, lyön, lyä, lyyvä, löipä, lyyä, lyövät, lyötiin, lyöte, löivät, lyöt, lyömään, lyödä, lyöen, lyöp, löihen, lyyvvä, lyöppä, lyökää, lyötii, löisin, löip, lyömä, löihe, lyäny, löit, lyöpä, lyömme, lyönt, lyötäville, lyöäkseni, lyönytkään, lyötäköhön, lyyen … and 303 more of 343 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
strike (struck, striking, strikes)	4,277	54.6%
hit (hits, hitting)	2,806	35.8%
beat (beaten, beats, beating)	529	6.8%
throw (thrown, throwing, threw)	32	0.4%
let (let's)	30	0.4%
play (played, playing)	21	0.3%
indeed	14	0.2%
cast	13	0.2%
hammer (hammers, hammered, hammering)	13	0.2%
place (places, placed)	12	0.2%
Uses counted	7,829

Example verses

löihe kukkaroizehesse (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Thrust into his purse,
löih se kukkaroizehesse (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
Stashed it in his purse;
löi se kokkoa kobria vasten (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"Struck the eagle’s head,"
löi hän kokkuo kobrie vasten (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
Struck the eagle against serpents,
lyyvä helkähyttelevi (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Made the metal clang.
löihen kukkaroisehensa (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
Struck into his purse;
löi on virkkuo vitsalla (SKVR I1 58.) read in context
löihe kukkaroisehese (SKVR I1 58 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
kello	9,384	1,330
kuulla	5,788	927
silloin	5,451	776
siellä	3,948	832
leikki	3,027	344
löyly	2,077	323
lonkkaluu	2,036	169
kurikka	1,773	220

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
Tule surma vastaan	109
Jalka kiveen	67
Rutsa	64
Kuulin siellä kellon lyövän	61
Iivana Kojosenpoika	57
Maailmansyntyruno	56
Pukin paimentaminen	53
Nurmen neito	52

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	379
Soikkola	153
Vuokkiniemi	141
Alatornio	114
Lempaala	111
Kemi	85
Kaprio	78
Suistamo	74
Ilomantsi	69
Sakkola	66

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1670–1679	1
1690–1699	10
1700–1709	10
1770–1779	1
1780–1789	19
1800–1809	4
1810–1819	41
1820–1829	58
1830–1839	215
1840–1849	341
1850–1859	331
1860–1869	47
1870–1879	105
1880–1889	594
1890–1899	418
1900–1909	364
1910–1919	616
1920–1929	169
1930–1939	1,354
1940–1949	160
1950–1959	268
1960–1969	236
1970–1979	3

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari	480
Elias Lönnrot	374
Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys	269
Volmari Porkka	240
D. E. D. Europaeus	120

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,374)

SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 5., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 163., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 203., SKVR I1 272., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 297., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 300., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 318., SKVR I1 337., SKVR I1 339 a)., SKVR I1 340., SKVR I1 340 a)., SKVR I1 343., SKVR I1 357., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 395., SKVR I1 402., SKVR I1 410., SKVR I1 410 a)., SKVR I1 432., SKVR I1 434., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 454., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 478., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 499., SKVR I1 508., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 527.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: lööma

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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.