maa
‘earth’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | earth |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 59,195 |
| By corpus | SKVR 24,714, JR 13,831, KR 1,237 poems, ERAB 20,649 |
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
maa, maata, maan, maada, maahan, maale, maasta, maalle, maita, maalta, maille, maad, maalla, maaha, maassa, maat, maani, moan, mailla, maalõ, maast, maal, moata, maile, moa, mailta, maas, muata, moalla, maade, maalt, moaha, maida, moasta, moahan, muasta, maista, moalle, maias, maala … and 518 more of 558 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
maa · 16
- 1. (astronoomilise nimena suure algustähega:) Päikesest kauguselt kolmas Päikesesüsteemi planeet, maakera
- 2. maismaa (vastandina merele vm. veekogule)
- 3. maismaa pind, maismaa pindmine osa
- 4. ruumiline vahemaa
EMS
maa
- maailm; meie planeedi pind elukeskkonnana (ka vastandina taevariigile või põrgule)
- (jututeemadest:) sellest ja teisest, paljudest asjadest
- väga palju, küll ja küll
- planeet
maa
Idamurre
maa
- maa
Seto
maa
- maa, maapind säidse süld maa `lahkõss, ku naańe lätt `paĺja `pääga üle tarõ vai üle
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 · Seto 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 |
|---|---|---|
| land (lands, land's, lands', landed) | 34,041 | 55.2% |
| earth (earth's, earths) | 16,012 | 26.0% |
| ground (ground's, grounds, grounded) | 10,041 | 16.3% |
| until | 366 | 0.6% |
| lie (lain, lies) | 180 | 0.3% |
| taste (tastes, tasted) | 123 | 0.2% |
| milk (milks, milk's, milks', milking) | 89 | 0.1% |
| other | 76 | 0.1% |
| mother (mother's, mothers) | 74 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 61,635 |
Example verses
- maan sie kannen koksattaja (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Who hammered the earth's lid, - kussa päim muaha kiändu (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
- moasta soate taivahah (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
Rising from earth to sky, - laul ois moalla loaskavembi (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
Song flow freer on earth." - laske marti muale tulla (AES, MT 3, 6 (15)) read in context
Let Marti come to the earth, - laske laeva maale jõuda (AES, MT 3, 13) read in context
Let the ship reach land! - atsmats maa ja iese õtu (AES, MT 3, 18) read in context
Atsmats' land and self's shadow, - kelle sirp maa sisse lähäb (AES, MT 3, 19) read in context
Whose sickle sinks into the earth,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| mato | 8,923 | 1,918 |
| mari | 4,967 | 1,595 |
| suo | 3,915 | 1,301 |
| maata | 3,861 | 1,271 |
| kaugelt | 3,589 | 635 |
| tükk | 3,426 | 946 |
| muu | 3,354 | 1,723 |
| alainen | 2,549 | 674 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Käärmeen sanat | 770 |
| Verensulku | 386 |
| Käärmeen synty | 382 |
| Käärmeen pidätys ja lumous | 345 |
| Raudan sanat | 337 |
| Niukahdus | 323 |
| Niukahduksen historiola | 321 |
| Raudan synty | 307 |
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 | 1,730 |
| Setumaa | 1,072 |
| Soikkola | 916 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 773 |
| Lempaala | 707 |
| Suistamo | 597 |
| Sakkola | 498 |
| Karksi | 486 |
| Vuole | 477 |
| Kuusalu | 446 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1560–1569 | 1 |
| 1600–1609 | 2 |
| 1640–1649 | 1 |
| 1650–1659 | 6 |
| 1670–1679 | 3 |
| 1680–1689 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 18 |
| 1700–1709 | 47 |
| 1720–1729 | 1 |
| 1730–1739 | 3 |
| 1750–1759 | 14 |
| 1760–1769 | 9 |
| 1770–1779 | 9 |
| 1780–1789 | 123 |
| 1800–1809 | 38 |
| 1810–1819 | 216 |
| 1820–1829 | 384 |
| 1830–1839 | 1,020 |
| 1840–1849 | 1,892 |
| 1850–1859 | 1,931 |
| 1860–1869 | 414 |
| 1870–1879 | 1,656 |
| 1880–1889 | 6,936 |
| 1890–1899 | 6,110 |
| 1900–1909 | 2,810 |
| 1910–1919 | 2,932 |
| 1920–1929 | 1,887 |
| 1930–1939 | 5,083 |
| 1940–1949 | 814 |
| 1950–1959 | 531 |
| 1960–1969 | 506 |
| 1970–1979 | 5 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 1,840 |
| Volmari Porkka | 1,248 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 1,039 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 787 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 733 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 36,256)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 5., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 35., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 74., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 81., SKVR I1 82., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 87., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 104., SKVR I1 105.
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.
Uses of these spellings that the AI analysis read as another word are left out of the verses and counts: maata
The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.
In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 20,202
Uses left out as another word: 0
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0
In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 38,601
Uses left out as another word: 1,627
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0