nutma

‘cry’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	cry
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	9,055
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 9,055

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

nutad, nuta, nutab, nutan, nuttemaie, nuttes, nuttis, nutta, nutsid, nutma, nutsin, nutteessa, nuttema, nutke, nutemaie, nuttad, nuttadessa, nuttamaie, nuttevada, nutavad, nutnud, nuttemasta, nuttees, nutema, nuttab, nutate, nuttades, nutku, nuttevad, nuttan, nutadessa, nutame, nuttedessa, nuteessa, nutkem, nutamaie, nute, nutes, nuttas, nutevada … and 101 more of 141 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.

EKSS

nutma · nutan 47

1. tugeva hrl. negatiivse meeleliigutuse v. valu pärast (nuuksudes, halisedes) pisaraid valama, pisaratel voolata laskma; töinama, tönnima, vesistama
2. hädaldama, kurtma, halisema

EMS

nutma

pisaraid valama, töinama
hädaldama, kurtma
kaeblikku häält või heli tekitama; vinguma, kiunuma
millegi või kellegi pärast nutma või kurvastama; leinama

nutma

manguma, lunima
kurnama
peksma

Idamurre

nutma

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
cry (crying, cried, cries)	13,022	94.0%
weep (weeps, wept, weeping)	695	5.0%
while	260	1.9%
mourn (mourned)	82	0.6%
even	50	0.4%
lament	18	0.1%
Uses counted	13,847

Example verses

kardin nuore nuttemaie (AES, MT 3, 7 (23)) read in context
I brought the young one to weep,
ann läks nuttes mere ääre (AES, MT 3, 13) read in context
Ann went weeping to the sea's edge:
tütar nuttis kalmukünkal (AES, MT 3, 13) read in context
The daughter wept on the grave-hill:
siis läksin koju nuttedessa (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
Then I went home weeping.
nuta nuta nokokõnõ (AES, MT 28, 10/1) read in context
Lull, lull, little beak-child,
vahel nutab vaenelapsi kaske (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
Sometimes the foe’s child weeps, oh birch,
mina koeo nutteessa (AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4)) read in context
As I wept at the sauna:
läksin nuttes koeo poole (AES, MT 62, 19/20) read in context
Went weeping toward 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	8,349	1,653
nurk	6,284	841
tütar	3,264	742
miks	3,220	586
poeg	2,968	691
eideke	2,498	401
taadike	1,931	311
kodu	1,897	699

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
Öösel üksi	164
Neli neidu	150
Ema haual	146
Tütarde tapja	135
Härjad murtud	99
Põlvist põdema	90
Tõbine naine	88
Arg kosilane	84

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	254
Haljala	214
Kolga-Jaani	212
Tõstamaa	158
Ambla	136
Kadrina	119
Põltsamaa	106
Koeru	102
Väike-Maarja	102
Viljandi	102

Attestation over time

Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.

Decade	Poems
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	15
1850–1859	5
1860–1869	16
1870–1879	303
1880–1889	1,050
1890–1899	1,344
1900–1909	334
1910–1919	392
1920–1929	381
1930–1939	381
1940–1949	25

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	197
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	161
Karl Viljak	140
Oskar Philipp Kallas	104
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	94

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,531)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 7 (23), AES, MT 3, 13, AES, MT 3, 13, AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 28, 10/1, AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 62, 19/20, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 141, 37, AES, MT 163, 3/4 (2), AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 173, 7, AES, MT 180, 7/8 (b), AES, MT 200, 59/61, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES, MT 219, 19, ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 1, 807 (1), ARS 1, 900 (3), E A 7 (9), E A 14 (23), E A 14/5 (24), E A 24/5 (6), E A 30 (11), E A 33 (53), E A 34 (54), E A 98, E A 120/1 (4), E A 121/2 (5), E A 151/2 (7), E A 152/3 (8), E A 154 (10), E A 175/8 (3), E A 180/2 (5), E A 185/8 (7), E A 189/91 (1), E A 195 (5), E A 198 (3), E A 207/8 (2), E A 213/4 (10), E A 216/8 (15), E A 222/1 (16), E A 232/3 (1), E A 241/2 (9), E A 257/8 (21), E A 262/4 (25), E A 264/7 (26), E A 269/71 (30), E A 281/3 (41), E A 318/9 (6), E A 336 (22), E A 344/6 (7), E A 346/7 (8), E A 356/7 (2), E A 363/4 (10), E A 384/3 (13), E A 396/7 (2)

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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.