muna
‘egg’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | egg |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 8,778 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,383, JR 2,763, KR 104 poems, ERAB 2,632 |
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
muna, munan, munat, munad, munele, munasen, mune, munia, munassa, munanen, munasta, munass, munast, munille, munaa, munane, munalla, munnaa, munna, munilla, munest, munal, munade, munalle, munansa, munoa, munas, munnõ, munista, munani, munaga, munale, muniansa, munasse, munõst, munede, munase, munazen, munadest, muniksi … and 122 more of 162 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
muna · 11
- 1. valminud munarakk (ka sellest arenev loode) koos teda ümbritsevate kestadega
- 2. kodulindude muna (1. täh.), hrl. kanamuna kui linnukasvatussaadus, kui toiduaine
- 3. miski munajas, linnumunataoline, ovaalne, ümmargune v. kerajas
- 4. laste teat. pallimäng; viga, mittetabamine selles mängus
EMS
muna-
- muna-
muna
- linnumuna (hrl kanamuna kui saadus, kui toiduaine)
- putuka või roomaja muna
- (kehaosadest)
- kapsanuuter
Idamurre
muna
- muna
Seto
muna
- linnumuna haŕokõsõ veeväm‿munnõ
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 |
|---|---|---|
| egg (eggs, egg's, eggs') | 10,756 | 98.5% |
| little | 297 | 2.7% |
| testicle (testicles) | 118 | 1.1% |
| like | 29 | 0.3% |
| lay (laid) | 27 | 0.2% |
| muna | 20 | 0.2% |
| eggy | 18 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 10,922 |
Example verses
- munisin munia (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
"I’d lay eggs," - jo munat muruiksi vieri (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Eggs rolled to pieces - mi munass on ruskieista (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
What in the egg is of the brown? - jo munat muruiksi mändih (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
Eggs turned to crumbs. - lammas läks laudile munele (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
A sheep went to the table for eggs, - moned linnud mune tüöle (AES, MT 19, 2) read in context
some birds to egg-work. - muna mõõgal otsah oll (AES, MT 40, 19 (22)) read in context
An egg on the sword's tip. - munad kukkusid mulgu alla (AES, MT 42, 9) read in context
Balls dropped under the Mulgus;
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kana | 6,909 | 1,278 |
| munia | 4,875 | 545 |
| muru | 3,105 | 531 |
| kypsä | 2,457 | 230 |
| küps | 2,278 | 226 |
| munema | 1,993 | 230 |
| vierähtää | 1,911 | 212 |
| kultainen | 1,574 | 370 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Maailmansyntyruno | 343 |
| Körö körö kirkkoon/tätilään/Huittisiin - kestitys | 188 |
| Imed | 181 |
| Loomine | 144 |
| Kiven vihat | 104 |
| Väinämöisen ammunta | 98 |
| Virpominen | 94 |
| Isa- ja mehekodus | 82 |
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 | 231 |
| Setumaa | 143 |
| Sakkola | 92 |
| Lempaala | 87 |
| Kuusalu | 86 |
| Haljala | 74 |
| Soikkola | 73 |
| Suistamo | 73 |
| Rautu | 70 |
| Vuole | 68 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1700–1709 | 6 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 6 |
| 1800–1809 | 5 |
| 1810–1819 | 30 |
| 1820–1829 | 24 |
| 1830–1839 | 84 |
| 1840–1849 | 209 |
| 1850–1859 | 190 |
| 1860–1869 | 47 |
| 1870–1879 | 207 |
| 1880–1889 | 761 |
| 1890–1899 | 759 |
| 1900–1909 | 370 |
| 1910–1919 | 642 |
| 1920–1929 | 404 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,016 |
| 1940–1949 | 197 |
| 1950–1959 | 231 |
| 1960–1969 | 172 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 143 |
| Volmari Porkka | 121 |
| Frans Kärki | 114 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 105 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 98 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,482)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 36., SKVR I1 37., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 68., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 74., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 76., SKVR I1 76 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 87., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 111., SKVR I1 114., SKVR I1 114 a)., SKVR I1 119., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123.
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.