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maja

‘house; hut’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glosshouse; hut
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences6,145
By corpusSKVR 1,045, JR 797, KR 136 poems, ERAB 4,303

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

maja, majasse, majja, majas, majassa, majasta, majan, majasi, majaje, majaa, majast, majoilla, majoille, majah, majad, majase, majana, majjaa, majada, majahan, majaan, majalle, majani, majoissa, majadel, majal, majat, majoa, majaista, majasa, majale, majanna, majoista, majoillensa, majakõnõ, majalla, majoihin, majaas, majade, majansa … and 158 more of 198 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

maja · 7

EMS

maja-

maja

(+3)

Idamurre

maja

Seto

maja

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 wordUsesShare
house (houses, house's, houses')4,76279.1%
hut (huts, hut's)82513.7%
dwelling (dwellings)2193.6%
shelter (shelters)1482.5%
cottage370.6%
little210.3%
manor (manors)110.2%
home100.2%
Uses counted6,018

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
mahtuma2,208236
mari2,101418
manitsema1,847199
marjavars1,570159
marjake1,311144
oma925396
marjapuu843102
muu681252

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 typePoems
Imelik maja121
Neiu linn112
Korvessa minun kotini79
Tuule tuba58
Äidin kuolo56
Paise54
Verensulku51
Tule mulle47

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Setumaa415
Kuusalu129
Narvusi107
Karksi102
Haljala101
Paistu94
Kolga-Jaani83
Tarvastu79
Halliste78
Lempaala66

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1690–16998
1700–17093
1750–17594
1760–17692
1770–17796
1780–17893
1800–18093
1810–181911
1820–182931
1830–183983
1840–1849130
1850–1859151
1860–186964
1870–1879216
1880–1889858
1890–1899925
1900–1909306
1910–1919330
1920–1929317
1930–1939677
1940–194984
1950–195949
1960–196937

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot148
Karl Viljak70
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov69
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch67
A. D. Neovius65
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,462)
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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.