neiu
‘maiden’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | maiden |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 38,370 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 472 poems, ERAB 37,896 |
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
neiu, neidu, neiud, neid, näio, neiukene, neio, näie, neiokene, neidusida, näiokene, näiokõnõ, näiukene, neide, neiukese, näiukese, neidised, neiukesta, näiol, neido … and 597 more of 617 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
- neid põle teinud meie neiud (AES, MT 3, 5 (12))
- kas on kodu teie neiud (AES, MT 3, 5 (14))
- närtsilike neidudega (Kalevipoeg 1)
- reas palju neidusida (Kalevipoeg 2)
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: neito
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.