meel
‘mind’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun
| English gloss | mind |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian |
| Total occurrences | 11,083 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 11,083 |
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
meele, meeli, meelest, meel, meelestäni, meelel, meeled, meelekene, miele, meeles, meelde, meelt, meelega, meelen, meelele, mielest, miilt, mieled, meeleke, meeleh, meeltä, meelelä, meelile, mielel, meelesse, meelda, meelu, meelil, meelis, meeleni, meeleta, meelte, miilel, miiltä, meeleje, meelü, meelesida, meeleks, meelet, meelekõnõ … and 71 more of 111 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
meel · -e, -t 35
- 1. teat. liiki aistingute vastuvõtu ja eristamise võime; vastavate ärrituste vastuvõtu ring, ala tervikuna
- 2. (inimese loomuse, hingelaadi, vaimu, meelelaadi vms. kohta)
- 3. (eeskätt tunnetega ühenduses)
- 4. (sageli arhailise varjundiga väljendites:) mõistus, aru; mõtlemisvõime, kaalutlemisvõime, arukus
EMS
meel
- aistingute vastuvõtu ja eristamise võime
- mõistus, aru; mõtlemisvõime, arukus
- meelemärkus, teadvus
- mälu (hrl sisekohakäänetes)
Idamurre
meel
- mälu
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| mind (mind's, minds) | 15,712 | 96.6% |
| little | 301 | 1.9% |
| mood (moods) | 163 | 1.0% |
| opinion | 77 | 0.5% |
| sense (senses) | 77 | 0.5% |
| meeli | 46 | 0.3% |
| meele | 36 | 0.2% |
| spirit (spirits) | 28 | 0.2% |
| thought (thoughts) | 27 | 0.2% |
| feeling (feelings) | 25 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 16,268 |
Example verses
- valge ansu miele pärast (AES, MT 3, 2 (6)) read in context
For White Ansu’s heart’s desire, - ee murdu mu meelekene mõõdõldõn (AES, MT 22, 2) read in context
Oh, may my heart not break from its limits, - vat see vötab meeled meeste peesta (AES, MT 27, 32/4) read in context
Lo, this takes men’s minds away, - sinna palas paha meel (AES, MT 40, 10/1 (15)) read in context
There breaks an ill will. - võttis meeled meeste päästa (AES, MT 43, 88) read in context
It seized the minds of men to save them, - meelest mesipajatus (AES, MT 44, 3) read in context
From the mind, honeyed speech. - kiilt suvve miilt pähä (AES, MT 54, 5 (7)) read in context
The gleam of summer, earth upon the head, - noore mehe meele tõttu (AES, MT 66, 6) read in context
because of the young man’s desire.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| lausuma | 19,355 | 1,817 |
| kurb | 6,222 | 887 |
| pool | 5,122 | 1,051 |
| mees | 4,588 | 1,274 |
| ks | 1,797 | 784 |
| mõtlema | 1,716 | 366 |
| pea | 1,587 | 585 |
| keel | 1,577 | 355 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Õlu viib meeled peast | 161 |
| Humal | 143 |
| Humal hõikas | 122 |
| Kellele kurdan? | 91 |
| Arg kosilane | 78 |
| Õlu | 67 |
| Venna sõjalugu | 57 |
| Haned kadunud | 50 |
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 | 953 |
| Karksi | 216 |
| Haljala | 179 |
| Paistu | 173 |
| Helme | 132 |
| Kuusalu | 126 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 118 |
| Tõstamaa | 114 |
| Tarvastu | 111 |
| Halliste | 110 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 12 |
| 1830–1839 | 1 |
| 1840–1849 | 5 |
| 1850–1859 | 5 |
| 1860–1869 | 51 |
| 1870–1879 | 410 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,227 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,331 |
| 1900–1909 | 307 |
| 1910–1919 | 327 |
| 1920–1929 | 572 |
| 1930–1939 | 796 |
| 1940–1949 | 54 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Joosep Hurt | 130 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 118 |
| Jakob Jagomann | 112 |
| Karl Viljak | 93 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 92 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,407)
- ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (6), AES, MT 22, 2, AES, MT 27, 32/4, AES, MT 40, 10/1 (15), AES, MT 43, 88, AES, MT 44, 3, AES, MT 54, 5 (7), AES, MT 66, 6, AES, MT 76, 1/2 (1), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES MT 287, 15/7, AES, MT 137, 12/4, AES, MT 141, 35, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 163, 3/4 (2), AES, MT 163, 4/7 (3), AES, MT 165, 5/66, AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 174, 42/3, AES, MT 183, 16, AES, MT 200, 64/5, AES, MT 200, 69/71, AES, MT 216, 27, AES, MT 219, 15, AES, MT 230, 1/2, AES, MT 230, 9/10, AES, MT 230, 10, AES, MT 236, 43/4, AES, MT 236, 57, AES, MT 257, 22/3, ARS 1, 421/4 (2), ARS 1, 469/70 (1), ARS 1, 492/5 (7), ARS 1, 512/6 (3), ARS 1, 639 (4), ARS 1, 643/5 (1), ARS 1, 654 (3), ARS 1, 666/8 (1), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), ARS 2, 28/32 (2a), ARS 2, 81/8 (13), ARS 2, 97/9 (22), E A 7 (9), E A 29 (9), E A 117/9 (2), E A 121/2 (5), E A 122/4 (6), E A 125/6 (1), E A 130/3 (5), E A 139/40 (10), E A 145/6 (15), E A 155/6, E A 171/2 (1), E A 185/8 (7), E A 200 (6), E A 241/2 (9), E A 253/5 (19)
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: mieli
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.