mets

‘forest’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	forest
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	15,162
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 15,162

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

metsa, mõtsa, metsas, metsast, metsad, mets, mõtsan, mõts, mõtsast, mõtsastagi, metses, mõtsasta, metsassa, mõtsah, metsade, metsäst, mõtsastegi, metsaje, metsassagi, metsestagi, metsi, mõtsu, metsest, mõtsas, metsan, metsesta, metsäd, metsasse, mõtsä, mõtsahn, metsada, mõtsana, metsades, mõtsale, metsadesse, metsal, mõtsal, metsessagi, mõtsus, metsadessa … and 73 more of 113 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

mets · -a 23

1. maastiku osa ja taimekooslus, mis on kujunenud puude koos kasvades
2. (illatiivis, harvemini inessiivis millegi mittesobivuse, kõlbmatuse kohta)

EMS

mets

puude kooslus
(metsapuudest, -materjalist)
hunt
millegi hulk, rohkus

(+3)

Idamurre

mets

heinamaa

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
forest (forest's, forests, forests')	18,197	99.9%
Uses counted	18,208

Example verses

metsast viiakse mehele (AES, MT 3, 6 (16)) read in context
From the forest, [they] are wed off,
niitis eina niksus metsa (AES, MT 3, 7 (23)) read in context
Mowed hay, notched the forest,
ma lään metsa murdijasta (AES, MT 3, 8 (24)) read in context
I'll go be a forest-breaker,
lähme aga lauldes laia metsa (AES, MT 3, 9 (29)) read in context
"Let us go singing to the wide forest,"
metsade pikad lehvijad (AES, MT 3, 16) read in context
Long banners of the forests
võttis luogu lõksus metsa (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
Took shelter, snared in the woods:
metsas kuiva kuuse ots (AES, MT 3, 23) read in context
"In the forest, on a dry spruce's tip."
metsas kuiva kuuse ots (AES, MT 3, 24) read in context
In the forest, a dry spruce's crown.

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
minema	10,664	3,210
kõndima	4,622	761
mees	2,352	902
ots	2,338	669
üle	2,291	659
leidma	2,160	515
vurr	2,076	200
murduma	1,526	160

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
Liiri-lõõri!	386
Arg kosilane	225
Laulu võim	196
Kolm metsa	180
Liiri-lõõri	174
Metsast mehele	134
Liiri, lõõri	127
Venna sõjalugu	114

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	486
Karksi	240
Paistu	226
Kuusalu	218
Haljala	215
Viljandi	211
Kolga-Jaani	204
Tarvastu	172
Helme	172
Ambla	169

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	6
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	16
1850–1859	6
1860–1869	60
1870–1879	548
1880–1889	1,668
1890–1899	2,165
1900–1909	478
1910–1919	638
1920–1929	860
1930–1939	1,256
1940–1949	67
1950–1959	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	232
Karl Viljak	197
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	196
Oskar Philipp Kallas	139
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	139

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,307)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 6 (16), AES, MT 3, 7 (23), AES, MT 3, 8 (24), AES, MT 3, 9 (29), AES, MT 3, 16, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 23, AES, MT 3, 24, AES, MT 3, 25, AES, MT 3, 26, AES, MT 22, 1, AES, MT 22, 2, AES, MT 22, 5, AES, MT 29, 3, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 9/10 (13), AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 40, 21/2 (26), AES, MT 43, 65, AES, MT 43, 68, AES, MT 43, 69, AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 54, 8 (9), AES, MT 58, 2/3, AES, MT 63, 3/5, AES, Mt 64, 26, AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3), AES, MT 79, 6/9, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 99, 8/10, AES, MT 100, 1, AES, MT 102, 8, AES, MT 102, 25 (1), AES, MT 102, 27 (1), AES, MT 102, 29 (4), AES, MT 102, 34 (4), AES, MT 102, 35, 36 (2), AES, MT 117, 54/5 (6), AES, MT 117, 57/8 (11), AES, MT 117, 60 (14), AES, MT 117, 60/1 (15), AES, MT 118, 6, AES, MT 141, 5, AES, MT 141, 7, AES, MT 154, 13, AES, MT 154, 14, AES, MT 163, 4/7 (3), AES, MT 163, 8/10 (5), AES, MT 163, 15/17 (8), AES, MT 173, 6, AES, MT 174, 28/9, AES, MT 187, 36/7, AES, MT 200, 69/71, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES MT 210, 15/20, AES MT 212, 59/60, AES, MT 216, 17, AES, MT 219, 4

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: metsä

← mesi metsä →

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.