metsä
‘forest’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | forest |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 11,773 |
| By corpus | SKVR 6,575, JR 5,198, KR 349 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
metsän, metsään, metsä, metän, metsässä, mehtään, metsät, metsää, metsähän, mehtä, metässä, metsästä, metsälle, metshän, mehtää, metälle, metsällä, methän, mehtän, metsiä, metästä, metsäss, metsäh, mesän, metzän, metshä, metsissä, mettäzessä, metseä, metshällä, medsän, metschän, metä, messä, metällä, metsähä, metsältä, mehtähän, metsäl, metsäll … and 215 more of 255 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 |
|---|---|---|
| forest (forest's, forests) | 22,549 | 96.2% |
| honey (honey's) | 809 | 3.5% |
| mehtola (mehtola's) | 45 | 0.2% |
| metsän | 29 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 23,432 |
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 | 269 |
| Metsälle lähtiessä | 197 |
| Karhua vastaan | 193 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 178 |
| Kanteleen synty | 149 |
| Laivaretki | 127 |
| Hiiri metsähän menevi | 109 |
| Pium paum paukkaa, jänis metsässä laukkaa | 102 |
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 | 385 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 218 |
| Soikkola | 195 |
| Suistamo | 179 |
| Saarijärvi | 133 |
| Uhtua | 126 |
| Kemi | 111 |
| Alatornio | 109 |
| Ilomantsi | 108 |
| Nurmes | 103 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1670–1679 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 3 |
| 1700–1709 | 9 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 2 |
| 1770–1779 | 5 |
| 1780–1789 | 44 |
| 1790–1799 | 1 |
| 1800–1809 | 7 |
| 1810–1819 | 54 |
| 1820–1829 | 77 |
| 1830–1839 | 250 |
| 1840–1849 | 394 |
| 1850–1859 | 416 |
| 1860–1869 | 57 |
| 1870–1879 | 190 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,061 |
| 1890–1899 | 673 |
| 1900–1909 | 557 |
| 1910–1919 | 737 |
| 1920–1929 | 305 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,676 |
| 1940–1949 | 258 |
| 1950–1959 | 284 |
| 1960–1969 | 305 |
| 1970–1979 | 4 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 497 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 332 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 306 |
| Volmari Porkka | 259 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 166 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,384)
- 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 107., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 213., SKVR I1 223., SKVR I1 224., SKVR I1 228., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 230., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 240., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 401., 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.
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. 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.