orja
‘slave’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | slave |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,563 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,334, JR 1,224, KR 164 poems, ERAB 0 |
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
orja, orjat, orjan, orjana, orjo, orjani, orjoin, orjot, orjilleen, orjon, orjillee, orjaksi, orjalle, orjanna, orjaa, orjueni, orjalla, orjaant, orjatkin, orjia, orjatki, orjille, orjaan, orjall, orjann, orjoa, orjojaa, orjam, orjakseis, orjonna, orjakseen, orjaksensa, orjina, orjoina, orjonn, orjona, orjaksesi, orjallee, orjanasi, orjii … and 118 more of 158 attested forms
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 |
|---|---|---|
| slave (slaves, slave's, slaves') | 4,715 | 91.1% |
| serf (serfs, serf's) | 183 | 3.5% |
| servant (servants) | 73 | 1.4% |
| *orja | 62 | 1.2% |
| slavery | 45 | 0.9% |
| stallion (stallions) | 42 | 0.8% |
| even | 11 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 5,175 |
Example verses
- pani orjat lietsomahan (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"set slaves to bellows-blowing." - ottipa orjat soutumaha (SKVR I1 78.) read in context
Took slaves to row." - otti orjan soutamaha (SKVR I1 83.) read in context
Took a slave to row. - otti orjan soutamahan (SKVR I1 83 a).) read in context
- pani orjat liettsomaha (SKVR I1 89.) read in context
- kurjan lintu orjan lintu (SKVR I1 125.) read in context
Miserable bird, slave-bird! - vainko orjat hoitettih (SKVR I1 179.) read in context
Or slaves merely tended? - annan orjani parahan (SKVR I1 179 a).) read in context
"I’ll give my finest slave,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| lietsoa | 3,876 | 350 |
| viro | 1,818 | 229 |
| lupa | 1,209 | 149 |
| ontua | 1,150 | 114 |
| ottaa | 1,014 | 278 |
| ali | 949 | 93 |
| panna | 820 | 262 |
| laittaa | 820 | 159 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Viron orja ja isäntä | 171 |
| Kultaneito | 140 |
| Kalervo ja Untamo | 103 |
| Iivana Kojosenpoika | 91 |
| Kalevanpojan kosto | 82 |
| Kanteleen synty | 64 |
| Olin orja vellolleni | 63 |
| Olin orjana Virossa | 56 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Narvusi | 208 |
| Lempaala | 144 |
| Soikkola | 99 |
| Vuole | 84 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 78 |
| Sakkola | 76 |
| Suistamo | 73 |
| Ilomantsi | 53 |
| Uhtua | 41 |
| Metsäpirtti | 38 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 7 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 2 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 7 |
| 1800–1809 | 2 |
| 1810–1819 | 20 |
| 1820–1829 | 41 |
| 1830–1839 | 133 |
| 1840–1849 | 265 |
| 1850–1859 | 209 |
| 1860–1869 | 23 |
| 1870–1879 | 92 |
| 1880–1889 | 306 |
| 1890–1899 | 279 |
| 1900–1909 | 155 |
| 1910–1919 | 100 |
| 1920–1929 | 22 |
| 1930–1939 | 156 |
| 1940–1949 | 35 |
| 1950–1959 | 42 |
| 1960–1969 | 20 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 234 |
| Volmari Porkka | 152 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 103 |
| A. D. Neovius | 99 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 94 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 1,930)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 179., SKVR I1 179 a)., SKVR I1 272., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 351., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 470., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 481., SKVR I1 501., SKVR I1 507., SKVR I1 508., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 516., SKVR I1 517., SKVR I1 520., SKVR I1 527., SKVR I1 528., SKVR I1 529., SKVR I1 529 a)., SKVR I1 529 b)., SKVR I1 529 c)., SKVR I1 530., SKVR I1 535., SKVR I1 537., SKVR I1 538., SKVR I1 539., SKVR I1 547., SKVR I1 549., SKVR I1 550., SKVR I1 552., SKVR I1 553., SKVR I1 553 a)., SKVR I1 562., SKVR I1 563., SKVR I1 564., SKVR I1 567., SKVR I1 569., SKVR I2 710., SKVR I2 771., SKVR I2 811., SKVR I2 847., SKVR I2 928., SKVR I2 935., SKVR I2 935 a)., SKVR I2 935 b)., SKVR I2 936., SKVR I2 937.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: ori
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.