metsä
‘forest's’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | forest's |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 11,935 |
| By corpus | SKVR 6,575, JR 5,198, KR 162 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.
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Attested wordforms
metsän, mettään, metsä, metän, metsässä, metsät, mettän, metsää, metsästä, mettää, mettäs, mehtolasta, mettähän, mettässä, methän, mettästä, mehtolan, messää, metsiä, metsolahan, mettsä, mettee, messään, metsäss, mettäsä, mettäm, methään, miston, mettälle, meddee, mehtolassa, mettäh, mettäzessä, mjesten, messän, metä, messä, metto, mezän, metthän … and 619 more of 659 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| forest | 70.3% |
| forest's | 23.6% |
| forests | 3.9% |
| honey | 1.8% |
| honey's | 0.2% |
| metsän | 0.1% |
| forests' | 0.1% |
| mehtola | 0.1% |
| mehtola's | 0.1% |
| black | 0.0% |
Example verses
- ei ollut sitä metsässä (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
None was in the forest, - ei ollut sidä metsässä (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
None were in the forest, - ei ole sidä metsässä (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
None in the forest - ei ollut sidä metsässä (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
It was not in the forest. - mi oli metsän otusta (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
All forest creatures, - mi oli metän otusta (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
- itseki metsän emäntä (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Even the forest’s mistress, - ei ollut sitä metsässä (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
None in the forest,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| mennä | 10,116 | 2,557 |
| sika | 8,896 | 1,426 |
| huiskia | 6,957 | 788 |
| laukata | 4,462 | 452 |
| kuningas | 3,616 | 689 |
| emäntä | 2,730 | 675 |
| jänis | 2,434 | 430 |
| mies | 2,383 | 893 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Huis sika metsään | 485 |
| Hiiri metsähän menevi | 231 |
| Karhua vastaan | 209 |
| Metsälle lähtiessä | 174 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 160 |
| Kanteleen synty | 136 |
| Laivaretki | 115 |
| Pium paum paukkaa, jänis metsässä laukkaa | 105 |
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 | 361 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 216 |
| Soikkola | 203 |
| Suistamo | 135 |
| Uhtua | 114 |
| Kemi | 108 |
| Ilomantsi | 97 |
| Alatornio | 88 |
| Kontokki | 84 |
| Lempaala | 79 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1670–1679 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 10 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 60 |
| 1800–1809 | 7 |
| 1810–1819 | 59 |
| 1820–1829 | 72 |
| 1830–1839 | 228 |
| 1840–1849 | 338 |
| 1850–1859 | 333 |
| 1860–1869 | 43 |
| 1870–1879 | 199 |
| 1880–1889 | 954 |
| 1890–1899 | 684 |
| 1900–1909 | 553 |
| 1910–1919 | 1,064 |
| 1920–1929 | 317 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,395 |
| 1940–1949 | 231 |
| 1950–1959 | 191 |
| 1960–1969 | 245 |
| 1970–1979 | 3 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 434 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 347 |
| Volmari Porkka | 264 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 223 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 215 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,005)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 223., SKVR I1 224., SKVR I1 228., SKVR I1 230., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 240., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 342., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 488., SKVR I1 574., SKVR I1 574 a)., SKVR I1 576., SKVR I1 576 a)., SKVR I1 578., SKVR I1 579., SKVR I1 579 a)., SKVR I1 580., SKVR I1 583., SKVR I1 584., SKVR I1 585., SKVR I1 587., SKVR I1 589., SKVR I1 591., SKVR I1 597., SKVR I1 597 a)., SKVR I1 597 b).
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: mets
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.