ootama

‘wait’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	wait
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,061
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,047

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

ootab, ooda, oota, ootan, ootas, oodetakse, oodeti, oodatakse, oodake, uotab, ootavad, oodatie, oodata, ootasime, oodati, ootamaie, ootage, ootanete, oodates, oodatasse, ootad, ootasid, ootasin, ooti, oodaku, ootamata, oodat, ootate, ootama, ootame, uota, oodit, ootid, uotas, oodas, oodõtas, oodand, ootamas, uotan, oodai … and 131 more of 171 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

ootama · oodata 48

1. kuskil mõnda aega viibima v. kuhugi jääma, arvestades teatud aja möödumisel kellegi v. millegi saabumist v. millegi toimumist
2. millelegi lootma, midagi eeldama, igatsema, soovima v. kartma
3. kellegi jaoks valmis v. teada olema, kellelgi ees seisma

EMS

ootama

arvestama kellegi või millegi saabumist, millegi toimumist
(käskivas kõneviisis ähvarduse või hoiatusena)
rase, tiine olema; sünnitamas, poegimas
lootma, eeldama, kartma

(+1)

Idamurre

ootama

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
wait (waits, waited, waiting, waiting's)	3,576	94.4%
await (awaited, awaits)	164	4.3%
while	14	0.4%
let (let's)	11	0.3%
unwaited	6	0.2%
more	5	0.1%
unawaited	5	0.1%
Uses counted	3,789

Example verses

uotab kas korjab naine nuori (AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17)) read in context
Waits if the young wife collects them,
isa mind uotas uppubad (AES, MT 62, 17/8) read in context
Father wished me to drown,
oodake kõik orjalapsed (AES, MT 76, 8/9 (1)) read in context
Wait, all children of slaves,
oodaks oodaks söögi tuujat (AES, MT 102, 32 (2)) read in context
Waiting, waiting for the food-bringer,
kuo minda oodetanne (AES, MT 141, 16/17) read in context
Who will wait for me,
ooda järgi oja päällä (AES, MT 262, 8) read in context
"Wait behind by the stream's edge,"
oodaai järge oiõ pääl (ARS 1, 519/23 (1)) read in context
wait at the shore’s edge,
ja ootab kuni tõeks saab (ARS 1, 797/9 (1)) read in context
Awaiting until comes to pass,

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
kodu	2,625	615
ammu	1,882	269
igav	1,160	133
aeg	725	173
koer	480	112
kuna	460	72
õhtu	335	76
eile	269	59

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	78
Oodatakse koju tööle	61
Kes koju ootab	51
Sõjalaul	48
Lunastatav neiu	47
Vihm mujale maale	45
Vares ootab hobuse surma	41
Mardilaul	38

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	115
Kuusalu	94
Haljala	83
Tõstamaa	69
Jõhvi	56
Kadrina	53
Helme	51
Ambla	51
Väike-Maarja	49
Paistu	45

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	3
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	1
1860–1869	13
1870–1879	149
1880–1889	530
1890–1899	571
1900–1909	149
1910–1919	164
1920–1929	205
1930–1939	267
1940–1949	17

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	79
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	59
Karl Viljak	54
Oskar Philipp Kallas	50
Peeter Penna	36

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,199)

ERAB: AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 62, 17/8, AES, MT 76, 8/9 (1), AES, MT 102, 32 (2), AES, MT 141, 16/17, AES, MT 262, 8, ARS 1, 519/23 (1), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 808 (3), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), ARS 2, 39/46 (6), E A 3 (1), E A 66/7 (122), E A 103 (17), E A 171/2 (1), E A 216/8 (15), E A 258/60 (22), E A 302 (15), E A 376/7 (5), E A 384/3 (13), E A 401/2 (8), E A 435/7 (2), E A 481/2 (3), E A 487/9, E A 505/6, E A 507/10, E A 532/4, E A 535/8, E A 539, E A 593 (15), E A 595/8; 613/4, E A 628 (16), E A 640 (10), E A 641 (11), E A 677/8 (11), E A 738 (7), E A 831/2 (9), E A 906 (3), E A 913 (24), E A 952/4 (16), E A 965/6 (5), E A 1023/6 (4), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 171, EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 6, l. 8p (2), EKmS 4° 1, 8/9 (9), EKmS 4° 1, 40/3 (53), EKmS 4° 1, 47 (59), EKmS 4° 1, 64/5 (88), EKmS 4° 1, 69/70 (96), EKmS 4° 1, 71 (99), EKmS 4° 1, 99 (151), EKmS 4° 1, 101 (154), EKmS 4° 1, 117 (178), EKmS 4° 1, 200 (18), EKmS 4° 1, 211 (33), EKmS 4° 1, 212 (35), EKmS 4° 1, 403/4 (6), EKmS 4° 1, 405 (7), EKmS 4° 1, 411/2 (14), EKmS 4° 1, 505/6 (3)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: odottaa

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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.