neitsik
‘maidens’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | maidens |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,572 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 1 poems, ERAB 4,571 |
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.
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Attested wordforms
neitsikutel, neitsikusse … and 6 more of 8 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
neitsik · -u 2
- 1. näitsik, neiu
- 2. teenijatüdruk, piiga
EMS
neitsik
- näitsik
Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut
Example verses
- neitsik mõisas neljas orja (E, StK 1, 101 (148)) read in context
The manor's maiden was the fourth slave, - viskas kadri neitsikusse (E 46740/6 (7)) read in context
Threw Kadri into maidenhood - neitsikutel nartsu mõske (E 56335/7 (17)) read in context
Maidens washed rags, - neitsik mõisas neljas orja (E 66161 (4)) read in context
Neitsik at the manor was the fourth slave.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| talv | 102 | 12 |
| närtsima | 85 | 7 |
| mõskma | 62 | 7 |
| näägutama | 56 | 4 |
| naine | 56 | 14 |
| võtma | 54 | 15 |
| nädal | 51 | 6 |
| närima | 48 | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Hoiatus lesenaise eest | 1 |
| Kadri kaebamine | 1 |
| Kadri mangumine | 1 |
| Kadri tants | 1 |
| Kadri tänamine | 1 |
| Kadride sajatus | 1 |
| Kadrilaul | 1 |
| Lähme kuud kuulama | 1 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Võrumaa | 3 |
| Setumaa | 3 |
| Tõstamaa | 1 |
| Palamuse | 1 |
| Laiuse | 1 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 1 |
| Rannu | 1 |
| Sangaste | 1 |
| Kadrina | 1 |
| Viru-Jaagupi | 1 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1870–1879 | 3 |
| 1880–1889 | 2 |
| 1890–1899 | 1 |
| 1900–1909 | 1 |
| 1920–1929 | 3 |
| 1930–1939 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| koguja teadmata | 3 |
| Victor Steini abiline | 3 |
| Siegfried (Siim) Lind | 1 |
| Hans Karu (Karro) | 1 |
| Albert Kruus | 1 |
Poems attesting this lemma (11)
Related lemmas
- Form of neitsi
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.