maja
‘house; hut’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | house; hut |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 6,145 |
| By corpus | SKVR 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
- 1. (elu-, töö-, teenindus- jne.) hoone
- 2. pere koos talle kuuluva(te) hoone(te)ga (v. ruumidega) ning majapidamisega
- 3. teat. asutus (enamasti koos vastava hoonega)
- 4. (Muinas-Eestis:) vanemate nõupidamine
EMS
maja-
maja
- (elu-, töö- jms) hoone
- võrgu-, paadikuur
- kuut vm pisem ehitis
- pere, talu; majapidamine; kodu
Idamurre
maja
- maja
Seto
maja
- ehitis, maja siss `oĺlgi jo pühä majah, ku klaasiga laḿbit‿tuĺliʔ Se; a läḱek‿`kaegõʔ, seo
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 |
|---|---|---|
| house (houses, house's, houses') | 4,762 | 79.1% |
| hut (huts, hut's) | 825 | 13.7% |
| dwelling (dwellings) | 219 | 3.6% |
| shelter (shelters) | 148 | 2.5% |
| cottage | 37 | 0.6% |
| little | 21 | 0.3% |
| manor (manors) | 11 | 0.2% |
| home | 10 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 6,018 |
Example verses
- maksoessa siun majase (SKVR I1 298.) read in context
- maksois on siun majase (SKVR I1 298 a).) read in context
- maksoiss sinun majasi (SKVR I1 301.) read in context
- matalaisehki majaha (SKVR I1 304.) read in context
Even to the lowly hut. - maja marre varre peal (AES, MT 3, 1 (2)) read in context
The house on the berry stalk, - pruudi majas sial suame süia (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
At the bride’s house, we’ll feast!" - või oo maja marsijalle (AES, MT 43, 56/7) read in context
Or a house for the traveler - ussi meele maju keele (AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5)) read in context
a snake’s mind, a house’s tongue.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| mahtuma | 2,208 | 236 |
| mari | 2,101 | 418 |
| manitsema | 1,847 | 199 |
| marjavars | 1,570 | 159 |
| marjake | 1,311 | 144 |
| oma | 925 | 396 |
| marjapuu | 843 | 102 |
| muu | 681 | 252 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Imelik maja | 121 |
| Neiu linn | 112 |
| Korvessa minun kotini | 79 |
| Tuule tuba | 58 |
| Äidin kuolo | 56 |
| Paise | 54 |
| Verensulku | 51 |
| Tule mulle | 47 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Setumaa | 415 |
| Kuusalu | 129 |
| Narvusi | 107 |
| Karksi | 102 |
| Haljala | 101 |
| Paistu | 94 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 83 |
| Tarvastu | 79 |
| Halliste | 78 |
| Lempaala | 66 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 8 |
| 1700–1709 | 3 |
| 1750–1759 | 4 |
| 1760–1769 | 2 |
| 1770–1779 | 6 |
| 1780–1789 | 3 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 11 |
| 1820–1829 | 31 |
| 1830–1839 | 83 |
| 1840–1849 | 130 |
| 1850–1859 | 151 |
| 1860–1869 | 64 |
| 1870–1879 | 216 |
| 1880–1889 | 858 |
| 1890–1899 | 925 |
| 1900–1909 | 306 |
| 1910–1919 | 330 |
| 1920–1929 | 317 |
| 1930–1939 | 677 |
| 1940–1949 | 84 |
| 1950–1959 | 49 |
| 1960–1969 | 37 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 148 |
| Karl Viljak | 70 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 69 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 67 |
| A. D. Neovius | 65 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,462)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 635., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I2 824., SKVR I2 1025., SKVR I2 1026., SKVR I2 1121., SKVR I2 1164., SKVR I2 1249 a)., SKVR I3 1365., SKVR I3 1382., SKVR I3 1384., SKVR I3 1385., SKVR I3 1798., SKVR I3 1888., SKVR I3 2053., SKVR I4 25., SKVR I4 39., SKVR I4 132., SKVR I4 171., SKVR I4 172., SKVR I4 173., SKVR I4 215., SKVR I4 437., SKVR I4 442., SKVR I4 454., SKVR I4 467., SKVR I4 499., SKVR I4 523., SKVR I4 534., SKVR I4 549., SKVR I4 571., SKVR I4 599., SKVR I4 599 a)., SKVR I4 599 b)., SKVR I4 600., SKVR I4 607., SKVR I4 625., SKVR I4 698., SKVR I4 707., SKVR I4 750., SKVR I4 767., SKVR I4 871., SKVR I4 887., SKVR I4 960., SKVR I4 1010., SKVR I4 1062., SKVR I4 1147., SKVR I4 1148., SKVR I4 1148 a)., SKVR I4 1153., SKVR I4 1256., SKVR I4 1415., SKVR I4 1417., SKVR I4 1639.
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.