matka
‘journey’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | journey |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,849 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,845, JR 2,004, KR 243 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
matka, matkan, matkoa, matkaa, matkoja, matkat, matkalla, matkaan, matkasi, matkoi, matkah, matkahan, matkoo, matkalle, matkua, matkaista, matassa, matkal, matkassa, matk, matkasta, matkoillasi, matkas, matkahase, matkall, matkallansa, matkoilla, matkojansa, matkaas, matkansa, matkani, matkoansa, matkalta, matkova, matkoille, matkallasi, matkoan, matkuau, matike, matkahasi … and 191 more of 231 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EMS
matka
- mõrra osa
- tugipost
Sources: EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| journey (journeys, journey's) | 5,556 | 91.2% |
| little | 191 | 3.1% |
| way | 140 | 2.3% |
| path | 133 | 2.2% |
| distance | 101 | 1.7% |
| worm | 65 | 1.1% |
| travel (traveled, travels) | 63 | 1.0% |
| trip (trips) | 31 | 0.5% |
| Uses counted | 6,089 |
Example verses
- siidä läksi matkahassi (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
Then continued his wandering. - kuss on matkasi mahalla (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
Where your journey is underway, - maar rasia matkoistani (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Flee, wretch, from my domain!" - siitä lähetään matkah (SKVR I1 50.) read in context
From there the journey is begun. - oro juoksi matka joutu (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
The stallion ran, journey sped, - outo matkoja osata (SKVR I1 63 c).) read in context
- niemi matkalla tuloo (SKVR I1 79.) read in context
A headland rose on the journey. - ota minua matkohisi (SKVR I1 79 a).) read in context
Take me on your quest!
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 |
|---|---|---|
| vähän | 5,164 | 619 |
| pitkä | 4,098 | 692 |
| vähäinen | 3,760 | 416 |
| maitopyörä | 3,687 | 365 |
| joutua | 3,357 | 484 |
| mennä | 3,080 | 869 |
| juosta | 2,301 | 453 |
| onnimanni | 1,730 | 173 |
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).
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 | 161 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 140 |
| Lempaala | 103 |
| Suistamo | 93 |
| Kaprio | 85 |
| Uhtua | 78 |
| Soikkola | 76 |
| Kontokki | 59 |
| Suojärvi | 55 |
| Repola | 54 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 9 |
| 1700–1709 | 3 |
| 1750–1759 | 3 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 8 |
| 1790–1799 | 1 |
| 1810–1819 | 16 |
| 1820–1829 | 30 |
| 1830–1839 | 195 |
| 1840–1849 | 256 |
| 1850–1859 | 165 |
| 1860–1869 | 30 |
| 1870–1879 | 154 |
| 1880–1889 | 365 |
| 1890–1899 | 290 |
| 1900–1909 | 223 |
| 1910–1919 | 183 |
| 1920–1929 | 81 |
| 1930–1939 | 442 |
| 1940–1949 | 100 |
| 1950–1959 | 115 |
| 1960–1969 | 84 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 306 |
| Volmari Porkka | 155 |
| A. A. Borenius | 132 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 80 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 75 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,756)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 117 c)., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 133., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 186., SKVR I1 186 a)., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 338., SKVR I1 347., SKVR I1 363., SKVR I1 372., SKVR I1 373., SKVR I1 375., SKVR I1 387., SKVR I1 397., SKVR I1 399., SKVR I1 401., SKVR I1 403., SKVR I1 414., SKVR I1 415., SKVR I1 419., SKVR I1 422., SKVR I1 423., SKVR I1 426., SKVR I1 437., SKVR I1 438., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 443., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 467.
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.