neiti
‘maiden’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | maiden |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,674 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,871, JR 1,803, KR 267 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
neiti, neiet, neidi, neity, neitinen, neitin, neit, neite, neitini, neitine, neitieni, neitiä, neitipä, nejti, neidin, neitille, neitiseni, neityeni, neidiset, neitillä, neitiäni, neidini, neitii, neitil, neitistä, neitit, neittel, neidiine, neidille, neidizet, neitien, neitisenä, neityä, neidelt, neidit, neidizel, neidji, neijti, neiriltä, neirin … and 39 more of 79 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 |
|---|---|---|
| maiden (maidens, maiden's, maidens') | 7,463 | 97.2% |
| lady | 49 | 0.6% |
| miss | 32 | 0.4% |
| maid | 28 | 0.4% |
| neiti | 24 | 0.3% |
| virgin | 9 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 7,678 |
Example verses
- neitistä leputtelöpi (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
- joko neiti annetah (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"is the maiden now given?" - siidä neidi otetaha (SKVR I1 22.) read in context
- anni tutti aino neidi (SKVR I1 24.) read in context
- vaan ei neity miessutuksi (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
But no maiden as wife. - pohjon tytti pohjon neiti (SKVR I1 44.) read in context
Pohjola's girl, Pohjola's maid - siitä neiti otettih (SKVR I1 50.) read in context
- sai neiti lepytetykse (SKVR I1 53.) read in context
The maiden was won over.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| anti | 4,049 | 520 |
| tyttö | 3,330 | 583 |
| aino | 1,647 | 194 |
| ainut | 1,391 | 122 |
| maria | 922 | 154 |
| matala | 857 | 125 |
| nuori | 688 | 203 |
| hämärä | 562 | 63 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Tulen sanat | 137 |
| Tulen synty | 96 |
| Kilpakosinta | 77 |
| Kultaneito | 65 |
| Mene myötä, myyty neiti | 49 |
| Hirttäytynyt neito | 47 |
| Meren kosijat | 41 |
| Vuotit viikon, vuota vielä | 38 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Vuokkiniemi | 365 |
| Kontokki | 149 |
| Uhtua | 143 |
| Ilomantsi | 79 |
| Kiimaisjärvi | 62 |
| Viena | 56 |
| Suomussalmi | 52 |
| Pistojärvi | 48 |
| Repola | 48 |
| Narvusi | 45 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 31 |
| 1800–1809 | 8 |
| 1810–1819 | 27 |
| 1820–1829 | 54 |
| 1830–1839 | 272 |
| 1840–1849 | 310 |
| 1850–1859 | 50 |
| 1860–1869 | 14 |
| 1870–1879 | 232 |
| 1880–1889 | 279 |
| 1890–1899 | 209 |
| 1900–1909 | 82 |
| 1910–1919 | 138 |
| 1920–1929 | 40 |
| 1930–1939 | 217 |
| 1940–1949 | 103 |
| 1950–1959 | 45 |
| 1960–1969 | 18 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 453 |
| A. A. Borenius | 144 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 92 |
| Väinö Kaukonen | 71 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 70 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,140)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 88 a)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 94., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 131 a)., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 211., SKVR I1 213., SKVR I1 214., SKVR I1 215., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 217., SKVR I1 218., SKVR I1 218 a)., SKVR I1 218 b)., SKVR I1 219., SKVR I1 220., SKVR I1 222., SKVR I1 223., SKVR I1 224., SKVR I1 225., SKVR I1 226., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 228., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 230., SKVR I1 231., SKVR I1 231 a)., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 236., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 238., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 240., SKVR I1 243., SKVR I1 243 a)., SKVR I1 243 b).
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: neiu
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.