nenä
‘nose’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | nose |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 6,209 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,630, JR 2,293, KR 286 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.
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Attested wordforms
nenässä, nenä, nenän, nenäs, nennää, ninnin, nennäis, nennääs, nänä, näsä, nasa, nasanenät, näne, nenit, nennaa, nennee, nenneä, nenneää, ninnun, nengoman, nenil, nenkin, nenniin, nenähinen, nenäkii, nenäv, ninissä, ninistä, nisetä, nizal, nizan, nuusnha, nänisestä, näsänen, nasapa, ndena, nenanen, nenije, nenista, nenisſä … and 216 more of 256 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EMS
nenä
Sources: EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| nose | 73.6% |
| nose's | 9.2% |
| noses | 7.8% |
| tip | 5.3% |
| tips | 1.5% |
| nostrils | 0.6% |
| snout | 0.6% |
| little | 0.4% |
| bow | 0.3% |
| now | 0.3% |
Example verses
- nenä joigu jouttsenina (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Noses honked like geese, - tuliniemien nenässä (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
At Fire Cape's tip, - tuliniemien nenässä (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
From the tip of fire-headlands, - nenä joutu jouttenina (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
- nenä jougu jouttenina (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
- pitän portan nenässä (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Holds the gate's tip, - ole purjepuun nenässä (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Be at the mast's prow, - nenässä tulisen niemen (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
At the tip of the fiery cape,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| rahi | 3,607 | 326 |
| niemi | 3,433 | 408 |
| rahje | 2,791 | 279 |
| neula | 1,913 | 239 |
| rasva | 1,840 | 251 |
| utuinen | 1,472 | 158 |
| rautainen | 1,451 | 227 |
| nykerä | 995 | 76 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Laivaretki | 89 |
| Karhua vastaan | 75 |
| Tulen sanat | 75 |
| Tulen synty | 69 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 54 |
| Kanteleen synty | 50 |
| Veneenveisto | 43 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 40 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Vuokkiniemi | 158 |
| Narvusi | 86 |
| Uhtua | 73 |
| Suistamo | 52 |
| Kontokki | 49 |
| Ilomantsi | 48 |
| Soikkola | 41 |
| Repola | 38 |
| Vuole | 31 |
| Suojärvi | 31 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 4 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 9 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 18 |
| 1820–1829 | 60 |
| 1830–1839 | 154 |
| 1840–1849 | 168 |
| 1850–1859 | 97 |
| 1860–1869 | 12 |
| 1870–1879 | 136 |
| 1880–1889 | 280 |
| 1890–1899 | 214 |
| 1900–1909 | 125 |
| 1910–1919 | 142 |
| 1920–1929 | 64 |
| 1930–1939 | 355 |
| 1940–1949 | 56 |
| 1950–1959 | 35 |
| 1960–1969 | 42 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 247 |
| A. A. Borenius | 90 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 75 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 64 |
| Volmari Porkka | 61 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 1,981)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 65., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 130., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 242., SKVR I1 246., SKVR I1 251., SKVR I1 251 a)., SKVR I1 253., SKVR I1 262., SKVR I1 265., SKVR I1 271., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 275., SKVR I1 280., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 364., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 375., SKVR I1 392., SKVR I1 393., SKVR I1 419., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 434., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 436., SKVR I1 438., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 443., SKVR I1 447., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 450., SKVR I1 458., SKVR I1 459., SKVR I1 465.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: nina
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.