neito
‘maiden’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | maiden |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 16,192 |
| By corpus | SKVR 12,015, JR 4,173, KR 337 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
neito, neittä, neitoi, neijon, neiot, neijot, neido, neidon, neioin, neitoo, neitoa, neitoni, neidoi, neiro, neiolta, neijo, neitoin, neitto, neidot, neiton, neitoja, neitoine, neiolle, neitoloja, neijoin, neitojais, neijolta, neitosta, neitojen, neitoloilta, neitoasi, neitoloista, neitosille, neitoon, neiðo, neidolle, neidoni, neitoamme, neitosilla, neitojaa … and 332 more of 372 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') | 31,767 | 98.7% |
| girl (girl's, girls) | 196 | 0.6% |
| neito | 77 | 0.2% |
| virgin | 40 | 0.1% |
| little | 35 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 32,181 |
Example verses
- uöt neittä leputtelöubi (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
- uöt on neijoista leputti (SKVR I1 6.) read in context
- neijoista varastamahi (SKVR I1 8.) read in context
- yöt on neitoa lepyttäävi (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Wooed the maiden by night. - uöd on neiduo leputtäuvi (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
- yöllä neittä leputteloupi (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
By night courting the maiden. - yöt on neitoa lepytti (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Nights soothing the maiden. - suat nuoren neijon palkoistasi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
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 |
|---|---|---|
| nuori | 11,505 | 2,300 |
| vastata | 2,510 | 632 |
| neljä | 2,259 | 517 |
| neuvoa | 2,195 | 367 |
| meidän | 1,897 | 583 |
| myyrä | 1,871 | 238 |
| nisä | 1,806 | 259 |
| saari | 1,782 | 482 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Nurmen neito | 214 |
| Rutsa | 204 |
| Kultaneito | 156 |
| Iivana Kojosenpoika | 154 |
| Tulen sanat | 149 |
| Konnusta kosinta | 148 |
| Meren kosijat | 136 |
| Maailmansyntyruno | 130 |
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 | 805 |
| Soikkola | 422 |
| Lempaala | 417 |
| Vuole | 286 |
| Sakkola | 275 |
| Suistamo | 260 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 253 |
| Kaprio | 235 |
| Rautu | 197 |
| Metsäpirtti | 155 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 2 |
| 1690–1699 | 3 |
| 1700–1709 | 10 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 5 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 35 |
| 1800–1809 | 1 |
| 1810–1819 | 69 |
| 1820–1829 | 98 |
| 1830–1839 | 335 |
| 1840–1849 | 887 |
| 1850–1859 | 863 |
| 1860–1869 | 97 |
| 1870–1879 | 316 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,459 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,197 |
| 1900–1909 | 798 |
| 1910–1919 | 494 |
| 1920–1929 | 118 |
| 1930–1939 | 835 |
| 1940–1949 | 231 |
| 1950–1959 | 201 |
| 1960–1969 | 141 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Volmari Porkka | 735 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 565 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 437 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 433 |
| A. A. Borenius | 281 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,211)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 6., SKVR I1 8., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 37., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 55., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 85., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 98., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 190., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 232., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 241., SKVR I1 248., SKVR I1 259., SKVR I1 261 a).
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.