õlu

‘beer’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	beer
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,825
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,769

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

õlle, õlut, õluta, õlu, õllele, õlled, õllest, õllekene, õllega, ölut, õluda, õllel, õlleta, õlud, õllu, õllut, õlles, õllede, õlluta, õlute, õlleesta, ölud, õlude, õlutki, õlutta, õlutä, õludel, õluti, пива, õlleella, õllelegi, õllude, õllum, õluded, õluvel … and 2 more of 37 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

õlu · õlle, õlut, õllesse, õllede, õllesid, õlledesse 6

tärkliserohkest toorainest (hrl. odralinnastest) kääritades saadud vähese alkoholisisaldusega jook

Idamurre

õlu

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
beer (beer's, beers)	6,431	85.2%
ale	260	3.4%
little	111	1.5%
beerless	66	0.9%
barley	34	0.5%
straw	24	0.3%
Uses counted	7,546

Example verses

isa akkas õlut tegema (AES, MT 3, 4 (10)) read in context
Father began making beer,
õitsist saab õluta juua (AES, MT 3, 16) read in context
"From Õitsi, one gets beer to drink,"
joome õlled käristame kannud (AES, MT 27, 32/4) read in context
We drink beer, clatter mugs,
juri abe tilgub õllest (AES, MT 43, 60) read in context
Juri’s mouth drips with beer,
tii sii tegu õluta (AES, MT 43, 70/1) read in context
Know this deed needs no ale,
õlu olli ullu taar olli tarka (AES, MT 43, 88) read in context
The beer was noble, Taar was wise,
akkasid õlut tegema (AES, MT 49, 19 (8)) read in context
Began to brew beer.
mina tuku tuku tunni õlle õlle (AES, MT 54, 8 (9)) read in context
I knock-knock, brew the beer, beer,

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
jooma	6,443	1,007
tegema	3,437	868
punane	1,216	247
ostma	966	201
ots	818	242
vaat	747	114
kann	706	130
viin	654	155

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
Õlu	143
Õllest saar	87
Humal	75
Õlu viib meeled peast	73
Kuningamäng	66
Joodik - AJUTINE	64
Lõikuselaul - ÜLD	62
Humal hõikas	61

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	128
Karksi	114
Ambla	113
Paistu	106
Muhu	97
Halliste	93
Haljala	86
Helme	83
Väike-Maarja	82
Tõstamaa	80

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	4
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	3
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	31
1870–1879	218
1880–1889	835
1890–1899	1,077
1900–1909	264
1910–1919	242
1920–1929	298
1930–1939	265
1940–1949	28

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	120
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	111
Oskar Philipp Kallas	76
Peeter Penna	50
Karl Viljak	48

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,466)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 4 (10), AES, MT 3, 16, AES, MT 27, 32/4, AES, MT 43, 60, AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 43, 88, AES, MT 49, 19 (8), AES, MT 54, 8 (9), AES, MT 54, 8/9 (10), AES, MT 60, 35/6 (24), AES, MT 76, 1/2 (1), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 88, 31, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 117, 62/3 (21), AES, MT 161, 23/7, AES, MT 171, 27/8 (1), AES, MT 174, 37/8, AES MT 208, 16, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES, MT 230, 6/7, AES, MT 262, 32/3, AES, MT 282, 24, ARS 1, 910/13 (1), E A 32 (48), E A 62 (112), E A 71 (130), E A 104 (3), E A 133/4 (6), E A 151/2 (7), E A 191/3 (2), E A 201 (9), E A 222/1 (16), E A 262/4 (25), E A 302 (15), E A 303/7, E A 382/1 (11), E A 432/5 (1), E A 444 (7), E A 461/2 (7), E A 473/4 (4), E A 600 (2), E A 618 (4), E A 621/2 (3), E A 674/5 (8), E A 691/3 (11), E A 707/8, E A 722/5 (2), E A 728/30 (4), E A 750 (713a), E A 799/802 (10), E A 814 (4), E A 823/5 (3), E A 825/7 (4), E A 864/5 (11), E A 913 (24), E A 932/6 (2), E A 961 (1), E A 963/4 (4)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: olut

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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.