õlg

‘shoulder; straw’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	shoulder; straw
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,393
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,335

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

õlma, õlale, õled, õlade, õlala, õla, ola, õlgi, õlad, õlalla, õlge, õlada, õlal, õlani, õlana, olale, õlasid, õlga, õlalta, olade, olalõ, õlest, õless, õlula, olala, õlasi, olad, õlast, olg, õlgede, õlgiga, õlgis, õlgida, õlmanegi, õladella, õlgist, õlgedest, õlgista, olada, õladel … and 108 more of 148 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

õlg · õla 24

1. kaelast õlanukini (see kaasa arvatud) ulatuv keha osa
2. (piltlikes ja püsiväljendites)

õlg · õle 23

rukki, nisu (vm. teravilja) kõrred, mis pole viljapeksul sasitud

Idamurre

õlg

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
shoulder (shoulders, shoulder's, shoulders')	2,646	72.4%
straw (straws, straw's, straws')	848	23.2%
beer (beer's)	16	0.4%
arm (arm's)	10	0.3%
Uses counted	3,654

Example verses

ahju uami ma õlale (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Oven’s heat upon my shoulder.
tuu orja ollele ola pääl ollele (AES, MT 50, 13 (9)) read in context
That slave, oh be upon the shoulder
krõps tõnu tõi kubu õlgi (AES, MT 70, 39) read in context
õled pillun pillapalla (AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10)) read in context
scatter straw pell-mell,
õunad mu õlale kuksid (AES MT 287, 4/14) read in context
Apples knocked on my shoulder,
sina õled kõsilane (AES, MT 88, 38/9) read in context
You are a wooer:
tuu orja ola pääl (AES, MT 117, 58 (12)) read in context
Come onto the slave's shoulder,
õppa esi õlmanegi (AES, MT 230, 9/10) read in context
Learn first even the straws,

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
peale	1,284	468
hõbe	976	182
õunapuu	845	128
õhuke	840	88
võtma	813	317
üle	702	199
õhtu	586	114
õde	438	134

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	78
Kaevul kosija	52
Müüdud neiu	45
Ema haual	40
Neli neidu	35
Oleks see mees minu!	35
Orja palk	33
Tule mulle!	33

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Karksi	121
Setumaa	111
Haljala	96
Halliste	92
Kolga-Jaani	82
Paistu	77
Tõstamaa	71
Ambla	68
Tarvastu	65
Helme	63

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1640–1649	1
1820–1829	1
1840–1849	4
1850–1859	1
1860–1869	29
1870–1879	181
1880–1889	711
1890–1899	787
1900–1909	162
1910–1919	173
1920–1929	212
1930–1939	228
1940–1949	12

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	93
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	84
Karl Viljak	68
Oskar Philipp Kallas	68
koguja teadmata	42

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,652)

ERAB: AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 50, 13 (9), AES, MT 70, 39, AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 88, 38/9, AES, MT 117, 58 (12), AES, MT 230, 9/10, ARS 1, 532/3 (1), ARS 1, 543/4 (1), ARS 2, 81/8 (13), E A 8/9 (12), E A 29/30 (10), E A 68 (125), E A 109 (1), E A 166/9 (8), E A 290 (48), E A 382/1 (11), E A 398 (4), E A 449/50 (14), E A 464/5 (11), E A 571 (33), E A 617/8 (3), E A 663/7 (1), E A 672/3 (6), E A 679/80 (14), E A 708 (678), E A 725/8 (3), E A 734/5 (2), E A 755/6 (1), E A 811/2 (1), E A 854/5 (2), E A 855/6 (3), E A 867/9 (13), E A 879/80 (4), E A 913 (24), E A 967/9 (7), E A 970/4 (8), E A 1002 (2), E A 1041/6 (15), E A 1054 (3), E A 1054/5 (4), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 153-154, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 155, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 155-157, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 3/6 (8), EKmS 4° 1, 101/2 (155), EKmS 4° 1, 143 (221), EKmS 4° 1, 152/3 (234), EKmS 4° 1, 156 (240), EKmS 4° 1, 164/5 (255), EKmS 4o 1, 327 (5), EKmS 4° 1, 333/6 (11), EKmS 4° 1, 362/3 (33), EKmS 4° 1, 407/8 (10), EKmS 4° 1, 443/4 (2), EKmS 4° 1, 546/8 (7), EKmS 4° 1, 551/2 (12), EKmS 4° 1, 555/6 (16), EKmS 4° 1, 571/3 (27)

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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.

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: ola