neiu
‘maiden’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun
| English gloss | maiden |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian |
| Total occurrences | 37,898 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 37,896 |
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
neiu, neidu, neiud, neiukene, neio, neiul, neiokene, neidusida, neiut, neiuke, näiukene, neiukesta, neidiste, neidude, neidusid, neiusida, näiokõsõ, neiule, neidisida, neiokese, näiokõist, neidudega, neiusid, neidisid, neidudesta, neidise, neiol, neiude, näioks, neiudega, neidudel, neidused, neiod, neiust, neiult, neiuda, neiukeise, neidudella, näiokesta, neiduse … and 190 more of 230 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
neiu · 6
- noor abiellumata naine, tüdruk, tütarlaps
EMS
neiu
- tütarlaps, noor vallaline naine
neiu
- meig
Idamurre
neiu
Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut · Idamurde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut
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') | 33,695 | 88.1% |
| girl (girl's, girls) | 4,190 | 11.0% |
| little | 960 | 2.5% |
| bride (brides) | 254 | 0.7% |
| young | 224 | 0.6% |
| face | 68 | 0.2% |
| dear | 46 | 0.1% |
| heart (hearts) | 40 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 38,253 |
Example verses
- neid põle teinud meie neiud (AES, MT 3, 5 (12)) read in context
These were not made by our maidens, - kas on kodu teie neiud (AES, MT 3, 5 (14)) read in context
Are your maidens at home? - küll mina tunnen tuima neidu (AES, MT 3, 7 (21)) read in context
Well do I know the stern maiden, - enne kui neida neidusida (AES, MT 3, 8 (24)) read in context
Before those maidens - enne kui neida neidusida (AES, MT 3, 8 (25)) read in context
- siis ma sõidan neiude vastu (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
Then I ride to meet the maidens. - enne kui neie neidusida (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
Before your maidens, - kas on kodu teie neiu (AES, MT 3, 19) read in context
Is your maiden at home?"
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 |
|---|---|---|
| noor | 13,293 | 3,110 |
| nooruke | 5,382 | 904 |
| nägema | 3,991 | 1,235 |
| neli | 2,420 | 513 |
| tuim | 1,711 | 349 |
| kostma | 1,522 | 562 |
| need | 1,254 | 677 |
| nutma | 1,178 | 494 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Tule mulle! | 428 |
| Tule mulle | 410 |
| Arg kosilane | 341 |
| Kaevul kosija | 325 |
| Oleks see mees minu! | 301 |
| Kosjahobu söötmine | 257 |
| Oleks | 236 |
| Petis peiu | 206 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Setumaa | 604 |
| Kuusalu | 577 |
| Haljala | 471 |
| Viljandi | 386 |
| Tõstamaa | 378 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 343 |
| Räpina | 328 |
| Ambla | 322 |
| Paistu | 284 |
| Kadrina | 280 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 11 |
| 1840–1849 | 4 |
| 1850–1859 | 2 |
| 1860–1869 | 62 |
| 1870–1879 | 981 |
| 1880–1889 | 2,981 |
| 1890–1899 | 3,611 |
| 1900–1909 | 864 |
| 1910–1919 | 1,054 |
| 1920–1929 | 1,019 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,216 |
| 1940–1949 | 63 |
| 1950–1959 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 422 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 415 |
| Karl Viljak | 377 |
| Oskar Philipp Kallas | 315 |
| Jakob Jagomann | 279 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 12,682)
- ERAB: AES, MT 3, 5 (12), AES, MT 3, 5 (14), AES, MT 3, 7 (21), AES, MT 3, 8 (24), AES, MT 3, 8 (25), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 19, AES, MT 5, 4, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 28, 12/3, AES, MT 29, 3, AES, MT 34, 5, AES, MT 40, 6 (8), AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 40, 18 (20), AES, MT 40, 18 (21), AES, MT 40, 30 (41), AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 51, AES, MT 43, 89, AES, MT 43, 91/2, AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 50, 4/5 (3), AES, MT 66, 8/8, AES, MT 66, 8/10, AES, MT 70, 35, AES, MT 75, 5, AES, MT 75, 32, AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES MT 287, 18/9, AES, MT 99, 8/10, AES, MT 104, Part 13 (2), AES, MT 117, 51/52 (1), AES, MT 117, 53/4 (4), AES, MT 137, 20 (1), AES, MT 141, 2/3, AES, MT 141, 5, AES, MT 141, 6/7, AES, MT 141, 12/13, AES, MT 141, 17, AES, MT 141, 25/6, AES, MT 141, 28, AES, MT 141, 28/30, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 163, 4/7 (3), AES, MT 163, 7/8 (4), AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 174, 30, AES, MT 174, 37/8, AES, MT 174, 42/3, AES, MT 180, 1, AES, MT 188, 56 (3), AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 200, 62, AES, MT 200, 66, AES, MT 200, 67/8, AES, MT 200, 69/71
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: neito
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.