nukkua
‘sleep’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | sleep |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 6,905 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,990, JR 3,915, KR 74 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 and is not part of the total.
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Attested wordforms
nuku, nukkumaan, nukkuu, nukkumahan, nukkui, nukun, nukuin, nukkumaa, nukkua, nukkuma, nukukkaan, nukkumassa, nukkumasta, nukkununna, nukukkaa, nukut, nukkuis, nukkumah, nukkukaa, nukkukoon, nukkusin, nukkumaha, nukkuman, nukuppa, nukkumoa, nukui, nukkuun, nukallen, nukkukohon, nukkupa, nukkuva, njuku, nukkuessa, nukkuissaan, nukkunehen, nukkunut, nukkuvaksi, nukkuvan, nucku, nukkuit … and 164 more of 204 attested forms
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 |
|---|---|---|
| sleep (slept, sleeps, sleeping) | 7,199 | 99.3% |
| sleeper (sleepers, sleeper's) | 19 | 0.3% |
| while | 17 | 0.2% |
| place | 16 | 0.2% |
| let | 13 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 7,253 |
Example verses
- löusin neijen nukkunehen (SKVR I1 58.) read in context
- löusin neien nukkunehen (SKVR I1 58 a).) read in context
- nukuttihin pohjon kansa (SKVR I1 63 a).) read in context
The North’s folk fell asleep. - nukuttihin pohjon kanssa (SKVR I1 63 b).) read in context
Lulling the North to sleep. - nukkununna nurmen alla (SKVR I1 erill. [Vipunen] 2.) read in context
- viel oisit nukkuna enämin (SKVR I2 730.) read in context
- siellä noijat nukkukoh (SKVR I2 1025.) read in context
There the witches slept, - jotta nukkuis nuojan kansa (SKVR I2 1128.) read in context
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 |
|---|---|---|
| nurmilintu | 13,735 | 1,040 |
| nurmi | 7,025 | 780 |
| lapsi | 3,913 | 936 |
| tuuduttaa | 1,817 | 290 |
| nukuttaa | 1,702 | 199 |
| rauha | 1,281 | 190 |
| hyvä | 1,048 | 331 |
| nukk | 838 | 147 |
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).
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Saarijärvi | 118 |
| Suistamo | 110 |
| Kemi | 97 |
| Kivennapa | 81 |
| Narvusi | 77 |
| Sakkola | 71 |
| Uskela | 70 |
| Koivisto | 62 |
| Rovaniemi | 57 |
| Metsäpirtti | 51 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 12 |
| 1820–1829 | 18 |
| 1830–1839 | 40 |
| 1840–1849 | 100 |
| 1850–1859 | 67 |
| 1860–1869 | 10 |
| 1870–1879 | 28 |
| 1880–1889 | 201 |
| 1890–1899 | 210 |
| 1900–1909 | 251 |
| 1910–1919 | 725 |
| 1920–1929 | 224 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,253 |
| 1940–1949 | 204 |
| 1950–1959 | 287 |
| 1960–1969 | 323 |
| 1970–1979 | 6 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 279 |
| Frans Kärki | 158 |
| Saarijärven yhteiskoulu | 111 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 87 |
| Eemeli Vihervaara | 81 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,970)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 erill. [Vipunen] 2., SKVR I2 730., SKVR I2 1025., SKVR I2 1128., SKVR I3 1281 a)., SKVR I3 1281 b)., SKVR I3 1759., SKVR I3 1807., SKVR I3 1808., SKVR I3 1808 a)., SKVR I4 232., SKVR I4 232 a)., SKVR I4 233., SKVR I4 250 a)., SKVR I4 333., SKVR I4 469., SKVR I4 561., SKVR I4 561 a)., SKVR I4 660., SKVR I4 666., SKVR I4 687., SKVR I4 692., SKVR I4 737., SKVR I4 807., SKVR I4 836., SKVR I4 1530., SKVR I4 1969., SKVR I4 1989., SKVR I4 1989 a)., SKVR I4 1991., SKVR I4 2009., SKVR I4 2272., SKVR I4 2279., SKVR I4 2280., SKVR I4 2293., SKVR I4 2296., SKVR I4 2297., SKVR I4 2305., SKVR II 108., SKVR II 220 b)., SKVR II 268., SKVR II 269., SKVR II 449., SKVR II 469., SKVR II 585., SKVR II 1036., SKVR III1 242., SKVR III1 623., SKVR III1 624., SKVR III1 778., SKVR III1 787., SKVR III1 788., SKVR III1 789., SKVR III1 795., SKVR III1 851., SKVR III1 1061.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: nukkuma
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.