neito
‘maiden’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | maiden |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 16,481 |
| By corpus | SKVR 12,015, JR 4,173, KR 289 poems, ERAB 0 |
Counts cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; the KR figure counts poems rather than word tokens.
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Attested wordforms
neito, neittä, neion, neitosen, neijon, neiot, neien, neijot, neitty, neitosia, neijen, neido, neitone, neitoset, neitoselta, neitosilta, neiet, neityt, neiolta, neittyttä … and 1,171 more of 1,191 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English across the corpus (top senses).
| Sense | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| maiden | 45,349 |
| maidens | 12,499 |
| maiden's | 6,044 |
| girl | 3,590 |
| maidens' | 1,570 |
Example verses
- uöt neittä leputtelöubi (SKVR I1 4.)
- uöt on neijoista leputti (SKVR I1 6.)
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: neitsi
Counts aggregate every sense and homonym of the written form shown above, as attested across the SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB corpora; the dictionary entry separates senses in detail.