mato
‘worm; snake’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | worm; snake |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,631 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,042, JR 1,589, KR 100 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
mato, mavot, matoo, matoa, matona, madon, mavolla, madot, matoi, matoni, maeto, matosi, maturista, matoloilla, mavokse, madoiksi, madoilla, matosein, madolla, mavom, moavot, matoos, matosena, matuo, madona, madoseni, matamia, matoas, matojain, mavod, muavot, madolle, madoni, madonj, madooksi, matoani, matoki, matoon, matopa, matosa … and 50 more of 90 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 |
|---|---|---|
| worm (worms, worm's, worms') | 5,443 | 89.7% |
| snake (snakes, snake's) | 463 | 7.6% |
| earth (earth's) | 99 | 1.6% |
| little | 89 | 1.5% |
| even | 24 | 0.4% |
| carpet | 18 | 0.3% |
| move (moves) | 18 | 0.3% |
| journey | 15 | 0.2% |
| stomach (stomach's) | 13 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 6,069 |
Example verses
- tulen mustana matona (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
I come as a black grub, - mato vierrettä vetävi (SKVR I1 35.) read in context
A worm pulls the cord, - kulki jouhissa matona (SKVR I1 79 a).) read in context
Slunk like a lynx, - kulki jouhissa matona (SKVR I1 84.) read in context
Moved among shafts like grass, - muuttu mussakse mavokse (SKVR I1 92.) read in context
- meni jouhissa matona (SKVR I1 96.) read in context
Crawled through the reeds, - mavot laijoilla mateli (SKVR I1 165.) read in context
Bellies sloshed with ladles. - mato miuhu viham pani (SKVR I1 334.) read in context
A worm put hate in you.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| must | 11,661 | 1,698 |
| maa | 8,923 | 1,918 |
| maanalainen | 5,119 | 431 |
| alainen | 4,528 | 554 |
| musta | 1,851 | 341 |
| pirä | 1,177 | 118 |
| madella | 1,061 | 132 |
| muikata | 636 | 48 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Käärmeen sanat | 904 |
| Käärmeen synty | 343 |
| Käärmeen pidätys ja lumous | 223 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 163 |
| Käärmeen pureman historiola | 102 |
| Ken söi kesävoin? | 85 |
| Hammastauti | 82 |
| Mansikka mäeltä huusi | 71 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Vuokkiniemi | 163 |
| Suistamo | 106 |
| Narvusi | 75 |
| Kontokki | 66 |
| Metsäpirtti | 63 |
| Ilomantsi | 51 |
| Uhtua | 50 |
| Lempaala | 48 |
| Sakkola | 42 |
| Soikkola | 41 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1640–1649 | 1 |
| 1650–1659 | 2 |
| 1690–1699 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 12 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 2 |
| 1780–1789 | 16 |
| 1800–1809 | 7 |
| 1810–1819 | 25 |
| 1820–1829 | 46 |
| 1830–1839 | 139 |
| 1840–1849 | 139 |
| 1850–1859 | 105 |
| 1860–1869 | 22 |
| 1870–1879 | 128 |
| 1880–1889 | 504 |
| 1890–1899 | 383 |
| 1900–1909 | 263 |
| 1910–1919 | 349 |
| 1920–1929 | 98 |
| 1930–1939 | 623 |
| 1940–1949 | 175 |
| 1950–1959 | 119 |
| 1960–1969 | 88 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 171 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 158 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 98 |
| A. A. Borenius | 91 |
| Frans Kärki | 85 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,255)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 35., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 336., SKVR I1 339., SKVR I1 341., SKVR I1 344., SKVR I1 345., SKVR I1 355., SKVR I1 358., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 362 a)., SKVR I1 363., SKVR I1 366., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 372., SKVR I1 373., SKVR I1 374., SKVR I1 375., SKVR I1 415., SKVR I1 418., SKVR I1 419., SKVR I1 423., SKVR I1 426., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 472., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 569., SKVR I1 621., SKVR I1 647., SKVR I1 659., SKVR I1 664., SKVR I2 701., SKVR I2 702., SKVR I2 702 a)., SKVR I2 703., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 705., SKVR I2 706., SKVR I2 707., SKVR I2 709., SKVR I2 710., SKVR I2 712., SKVR I2 713., SKVR I2 716., SKVR I2 717., SKVR I2 718., SKVR I2 719., SKVR I2 722., SKVR I2 722 a)., SKVR I2 724.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: madu
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.