õde

‘sister’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	sister
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	11,158
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 11,146

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

õde, õed, õe, õekene, õele, ode, õeke, õel, õeksed, õdede, õdeda, õdene, õest, õesta, õega, õelt, õdõ, õdedest, õdedel, õdedele, uelt, öde, õdeke, õdeni, õdedelle, õekesta, õeta, õdele, õdesida, õdegi, õestagi, õdeje, õekse, õdesid, õedelle, õegata, öele, õdet, õekenne, õeksa … and 45 more of 85 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

õde · õe 28

1. tüdruk v. naine oma vanemate teiste laste suhtes; (sageli ka kasuõe v. poolõe kohta)
2. (kellegagi millegi poolest ühte kuuluva naise kohta:) naissoost seltsimees, kaasmaalane, ametikaaslane jne
3. meditsiiniõde

Idamurre

õde

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · 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
sister (sisters, sister's, sisters')	18,845	98.9%
little	995	5.2%
dear	186	1.0%
malicious	51	0.3%
law	49	0.3%
silver	39	0.2%
evil	35	0.2%
Uses counted	19,051

Example verses

ma käisin õel võersis mua emakene (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
I was at my sister's abroad, my dear mother!
õitsi õitsi muo õeke (AES, MT 3, 16) read in context
"Oh, Õitsi, my little sister,"
õekene õiekene (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
Little sister, little flower
noko õed vennäd surnud (AES, MT 28, 10/1) read in context
Your sisters, brothers are dead,
külatüdrikud õeksed (AES, MT 43, 66) read in context
Village girls, sisters,
õlekõrs õdede ruoska (AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2)) read in context
Sisters' whip was a straw stalk,
õdedest ää aetud (AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3)) read in context
Driven out by sisters,
tule koeo mo õeke (AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6)) read in context
Come home, my sister,

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
vend	3,751	1,041
tundma	2,568	558
õu	2,161	509
külatüdruk	1,603	180
mõistma	1,583	379
õpetama	1,493	227
madal	1,037	211
hoidma	927	263

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
Venna sõjalugu	386
Sõjalaul	279
Müüdud neiu	140
Lunastatav neiu	114
Öösel üksi	107
Noorik kodu käimas	87
Kodu käimas	76
Kosjahobu söötmine	71

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Kolga-Jaani	289
Haljala	275
Kuusalu	241
Kadrina	190
Ambla	183
Muhu	159
Tõstamaa	157
Vigala	146
Koeru	124
Vändra	119

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	4
1840–1849	8
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	13
1870–1879	373
1880–1889	1,436
1890–1899	1,682
1900–1909	321
1910–1919	485
1920–1929	469
1930–1939	384
1940–1949	19

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	223
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	203
Karl Viljak	176
Oskar Philipp Kallas	154
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	116

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,594)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 16, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 28, 10/1, AES, MT 43, 66, AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3), AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6), AES, MT 62, 17, AES, MT 62, 19/20, AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 76, 12/3 (5), AES, MT 76, 15/6 (8), AES, MT 76, 32/3 (4), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 84, 1/2, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 141, 18/20, AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 262, 23, ARS 1, 733/5 (2), ARS 1, 807 (1), ARS 1, 867 (3), ARS 1, 900 (1), ARS 2, 329 (96), E A 9 (13), E A 11/2 (19), E A 12/3 (21), E A 22 (1), E A 23 (2), E A 29 (9), E A 31 (13), E A 51 (94), E A 97, E A 120/1 (4), E A 124 (5), E A 128/9 (3), E A 129/30 (4), E A 130/3 (5), E A 139/40 (10), E A 151/2 (7), E A 172/4 (2), E A 199/200 (5), E A 209/10 (5), E A 214/5 (12), E A 216/8 (15), E A 240/1 (8), E A 244/8 (11), E A 252/3 (17), E A 264/7 (26), E A 273/4 (34), E A 279/81 (40), E A 290 (48), E A 357 (3), E A 358 (4), E A 365/7 (12), E A 372 (15), E A 373/4 (2)

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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.