maito

‘milk’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	milk
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	4,666
By corpus	SKVR 3,091, JR 1,575, KR 123 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

maito, maion, maitona, maitoo, maitoa, maidon, maiot, maitos, maituo, maitoni, maitosi, maitakaan, maiduo, maijjon, maitua, maitojansa, maiosta, maidolla, maitoansa, maitoi, maiton, maitakaa, maidona, maetoo, maioksi, maitosii, maitonsa, maitonna, maido, maitu, maitoja, maitojaan, maitoon, maidosta, maijol, maidot, maijoks, maitokin, maitosilla, maitohon … and 110 more of 150 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
milk (milk's, milks, milks', milking)	4,424	94.9%
butter (butter's)	48	1.0%
land (land's, lands)	44	0.9%
even	20	0.4%
earth (earth's)	17	0.4%
cow (cow's)	12	0.3%
milkless	12	0.3%
milky	10	0.2%
debt (debts)	7	0.2%
mother (mother's)	7	0.2%
Uses counted	4,661

Example verses

maiosta mahovan lehmän (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
From the milk of a full-bellied cow,
maiosta mahero lehmän (SKVR I1 54 a).) read in context
From earth, a spirit-cow
kussa maitu maita lässä (SKVR I1 83 a).) read in context
Where he lay on land,
kuhu maitu maita lässä (SKVR I1 87.) read in context
Where he lay in swampy lands,
kuhu maitu maita lässä (SKVR I1 89.) read in context
kuhu maitu maita lässä (SKVR I1 266.) read in context
Where lands meet in mud,
eipä maito maahan jouva (SKVR I1 287.) read in context
Let milk not reach ground,
maahan maito juoksemahan (SKVR I1 297.) read in context
Milk ran to the ground,

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
lypsää	4,399	504
maata	2,631	454
lämmittää	2,305	292
makea	2,198	270
maa	1,952	719
joutaa	1,563	221
antaja	1,514	149
musta	1,462	282

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
Raudan sanat	453
Raudan synty	435
Verensulku	349
Ehtynyt tai pilattu lehmä lypsäväksi	81
Lunastettava neito	66
Lypsäjän sanoja	66
Myyty neito	65
Äidin vaivojen palkinto	60

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Suistamo	135
Vuokkiniemi	83
Narvusi	78
Soikkola	69
Lempaala	56
Suojärvi	51
Ilomantsi	50
Kontokki	49
Vuole	49
Uhtua	44

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	5
1660–1669	1
1670–1679	1
1680–1689	1
1690–1699	3
1700–1709	8
1730–1739	1
1760–1769	2
1780–1789	24
1800–1809	7
1810–1819	34
1820–1829	66
1830–1839	123
1840–1849	193
1850–1859	195
1860–1869	20
1870–1879	69
1880–1889	612
1890–1899	325
1900–1909	221
1910–1919	284
1920–1929	110
1930–1939	518
1940–1949	124
1950–1959	68
1960–1969	94
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Kaarle Krohn	235
Elias Lönnrot	197
D. E. D. Europaeus	94
Volmari Porkka	76
Samuli Paulaharju	63

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,117)

SKVR: SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 87., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 266., SKVR I1 287., SKVR I1 297., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 303., SKVR I1 311., SKVR I1 313., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 322., SKVR I1 325., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 420., SKVR I1 634., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I1 687., SKVR I1 689., SKVR I1 690 a)., SKVR I1 693., SKVR I1 700., SKVR I1 erill. [Sampo] 2., SKVR I1 erill. [Sampo] 5., SKVR I2 936., SKVR I2 939., SKVR I2 942., SKVR I2 945., SKVR I2 1023., SKVR I2 1037., SKVR I2 1113., SKVR I2 1115., SKVR I3 1476., SKVR I3 1769., SKVR I3 1770., SKVR I3 1774., SKVR I3 1780., SKVR I3 1782., SKVR I3 1783., SKVR I3 1784., SKVR I3 1785., SKVR I3 1786., SKVR I3 1787., SKVR I3 1788., SKVR I3 1891., SKVR I3 1893., SKVR I3 1895., SKVR I3 1896., SKVR I3 1896 a)., SKVR I3 1897., SKVR I3 1899., SKVR I3 1900., SKVR I3 1901.

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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.