minema

‘go’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	go
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	44,490
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 44,489

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

läksin, lähme, minna, mine, minema, läts, minnä, läksid, lääme, lähen, läinud, lään, lääb, läheb, läits, läen, lähed, lääd, minge, mingu, läeb, lähvad, menna, menema, mineme, minemä, lähäb, läävä, minneenna, lähan, lähäd, lähän, minnes, minnessagi, lähad, läheme, mengu, lääi, lähevad, menne … and 350 more of 390 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

minema · kõnek

1. (eesmärgile osutamata:) (eemaldudes) edasi liikuma
2. eesmärgipäraselt (eemale) liikuma, kuhugi v. midagi tegema suunduma
3. lahkuma, kuhugi mujale siirduma (mõnikord ainult öeldisverbi tugevdavalt: 'ära')
4. kaduma, (ära) kuluma

(+2)

EMS

minema

liikuma (eesmärgile osutamata)
(väljendab liikumise suunda)
(ehale minemisest)
(sünnitamisest)

(+36)

Idamurre

minema

Seto

minemä

(eemaldudes) edasi liikuma, kuhugi (midagi tegema) suunduma a läḱek‿

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 · Seto 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
go (went, goes, gone, going)	62,059	97.7%
let (let's)	3,766	5.9%
away	165	0.3%
even	104	0.2%
become (becomes, became)	97	0.2%
until	96	0.2%
take (taken, took)	72	0.1%
Uses counted	63,539

Example verses

lapse silma menna (AES, MT 3, 2 (3)) read in context
Into the child's eyes descend!
lapse silma minna (AES, MT 3, 2 (5)) read in context
Into the child's eye go.
ja ori mõisa lääb (AES, MT 3, 3 (7)) read in context
The slave goes to the manor,
ma lään omme ma lään omme (AES, MT 3, 3 (8)) read in context
We are going, we are going,
lapsed läksid luastu noppima (AES, MT 3, 4 (10)) read in context
Children went to pick bones(?),
laubä õhta läksin ma (AES, MT 3, 5 (13)) read in context
At dimming eve I went
ma lään metsa murdijasta (AES, MT 3, 8 (24)) read in context
I'll go be a forest-breaker,
lähme lähme käime käime (AES, MT 3, 8 (26)) read in context
Let us go, let us walk,

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
mets	10,664	3,210
kodu	7,793	3,850
ks	4,183	3,079
tee	4,166	1,872
haud	3,414	1,083
sõda	3,250	1,276
läbi	3,247	1,333
kõndima	3,148	991

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
Ema haual	801
Venna sõjalugu	572
Sõjalaul	391
Liiri-lõõri!	356
Arg kosilane	306
Oleks see mees minu!	287
Öösel üksi	278
Kaevul kosija	255

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	1,460
Kuusalu	1,200
Haljala	1,029
Paistu	875
Karksi	849
Kolga-Jaani	810
Ambla	711
Halliste	672
Tarvastu	650
Viljandi	641

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	3
1820–1829	30
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	28
1850–1859	16
1860–1869	213
1870–1879	1,880
1880–1889	6,418
1890–1899	8,081
1900–1909	1,886
1910–1919	2,414
1920–1929	2,734
1930–1939	3,456
1940–1949	198
1950–1959	2

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	999
Karl Viljak	866
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	737
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	587
Oskar Philipp Kallas	509

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 29,193)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (3), AES, MT 3, 2 (5), AES, MT 3, 3 (7), AES, MT 3, 3 (8), AES, MT 3, 4 (10), AES, MT 3, 5 (13), AES, MT 3, 8 (24), AES, MT 3, 8 (26), AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27), AES, MT 3, 9 (29), AES, MT 3, 10 (32), AES, MT 3, 11 (35), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 3, 19, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 3, 21/2, AES, MT 3, 24, AES, MT 4, 2, AES, MT 7, 76, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 28, 7/9, AES, MT 28, 12/3, AES, MT 34, 1/3, AES, MT 34, 6/8, AES, MT 34, 8, AES, MT 36, 2, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 6 (8), AES, MT 40, 10 (14), AES, MT 40, 11/2 (16), AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 40, 24 (31), AES, MT 40, 26 (35), AES, MT 40, 28/9 (39), AES, MT 42, 9, AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 59, AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 43, 80/5, AES, MT 43, 91/2, AES, MT 44, 2, AES, MT 44, 4/5, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 45, 9/10, AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3), AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6), AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 49, 21/2 (10), AES, MT 54, 10/1, AES, MT 55, 3, AES, MT 57, 1, AES, MT 58, 6, AES, MT 59, 5, AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 60, 33 (20)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: mennä

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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.

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: mine