magama

‘sleep’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	sleep
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	9,943
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 9,943

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

magama, magada, magasi, maga, magab, maka, maganud, magasin, magame, magamine, magasid, magas, magade, magavad, magades, magad, magan, maguda, magamahe, magagu, maganu, magatud, magadenna, magamast, magand, magamas, magaksin, makama, magate, magamene, magasigi, magage, magase, magasõ, magaden, magatenna, magamata, magadeski, magamasta, magasime … and 92 more of 132 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

magama · 37

1. uneseisundis olema, mitte ärkvel olema
2. (hrl. inimese kohta:) tegevusetu olema v. väga aeglaselt midagi tegema
3. kellegagi seksuaalvahekorras olema, suguliselt läbi käima

EMS

magama

unes olema
surnuna puhkama, surnuna lamama
kellegagi seksuaalvahekorras olema; ehal käima
lamandama, lasudes rikkuma

(+2)

magama-

magamis-

Idamurre

magama

Seto

magama

magahhama

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
sleep (slept, sleeping, sleeps)	16,549	97.4%
lie (lies, lay)	376	2.2%
while	104	0.6%
sleeper (sleepers)	56	0.3%
even	25	0.1%
let	25	0.1%
down	19	0.1%
Uses counted	16,995

Example verses

nuore nuoriku magada (AES, MT 3, 1 (2)) read in context
For the young bride to sleep,
magasin üleval lakas (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
I slept up in the loft,
nuore nuoriku magada (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
For the young bride to sleep
sääremarjasta magama (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
The shin-berry made [her] lie down,
pikk lääb pingile magama (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
The tall one goes to sleep on the bench,
esmaspä eidin magama (AES, MT 3, 21) read in context
On Monday I went to sleep,
maga maga massikene (AES, MT 3, 23) read in context
Sleep, sleep, little berry,
esmäbä une magasin (AES, MT 4, 2) read in context
First I slept a sleep,

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
sääremari	2,216	217
uni	2,199	480
minema	2,113	1,134
öö	1,913	383
uinuma	1,612	214
viima	1,608	562
pill	1,594	298
heitma	1,523	283

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
Öösel üksi	249
Tule mulle	218
Tule mulle!	214
Põlvist põdema	210
Tõbine naine	198
Must naine	195
Unenägu	141
Laulu võim	128

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	338
Haljala	309
Karksi	268
Setumaa	248
Paistu	243
Kolga-Jaani	223
Ambla	198
Halliste	187
Tarvastu	185
Jõhvi	174

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	7
1840–1849	10
1850–1859	5
1860–1869	53
1870–1879	514
1880–1889	1,703
1890–1899	2,239
1900–1909	506
1910–1919	633
1920–1929	625
1930–1939	648
1940–1949	49

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	254
Karl Viljak	222
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	195
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	159
Oskar Philipp Kallas	140

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,447)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 1 (2), AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 3, 21, AES, MT 3, 23, AES, MT 4, 2, AES, MT 6, 8 (7), AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 27, 34, AES, MT 36, 2/3, AES, MT 40, 29/30 (40), AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 63, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 7, AES, MT 66, 13, AES, MT 76, 15/6 (8), AES, MT 76, 34/5 (6), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 18/9, AES, MT 102, 10, AES, MT 117, 70 (34), AES, MT 137, 20/1 (2), AES, MT 141, 8, AES, MT 141, 15, AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 141, 21/22, AES, MT 141, 24/5, AES, MT 141, 34/5, AES, MT 141, 26a/26b, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 154, 6, AES, MT 154, 7/8, AES, MT 154, 14/5, AES, MT 163, 7/8 (4), AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 166, 5 (4), AES, MT 171, 28/9 (2), AES, MT 174, 30, AES, MT 183, 13, AES, MT 200, 66, AES, MT 205, 6/7, AES, MT 205, 9/10, AES, MT 205, 34/5, AES, MT 205, 36/7, AES MT 208, 19, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES MT 210, 1, AES MT 210, 6/8, AES MT 210, 12/3, AES, MT 216, 27, AES, MT 227, 38/40, AES, MT 230, 6/7, AES, MT 230, 8/9, AES, MT 262, 24, AES, MT 262, 28/9

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: maata

← maata maito →

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.