ostma

‘buy’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	buy
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,044
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,044

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

osta, ostsin, ostab, ostan, ostis, ostemaie, ostame, ostke, ostetud, ostad, ostet, ostma, ostemata, ostsid, ost, ostamaie, ostam, ostaks, ostemasta, ostas, ostnud, ostavad, oste, ostema, ostkem, ostaksin, ostemahe, ostetakse, ostetus, ostkõ, ostave, ostamata, ostvad, osteta, ostse, ostõt, ostemada, ostetasse, ostmahe, ostnu … and 112 more of 152 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

ostma · 47

raha eest omandama; ant. müüma

EMS

ostma

raha eest omandama

Idamurre

ostma

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
buy (bought, buys, buying)	5,754	96.3%
horse (horse's)	99	1.7%
unbought	89	1.5%
purchase	25	0.4%
let (let's)	19	0.3%
we'll	16	0.3%
silver	9	0.2%
Uses counted	5,976

Example verses

sellel peigmes mütsi ostab (AES, MT 3, 4 (11)) read in context
For that one, the suitor buys a hat.
sellel peigmes mütsi ostab (AES, MT 3, 9 (29)) read in context
"For that groom, buy a hat."
siis jäi obu ostemata (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
Then the sister-in-law remained unbought,
siis jäi obu ostemata (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
Then the sister-in-law remained unbought,
ostam tõõsõ suurkarusõ (AES, MT 22, 3) read in context
aidake mul oosta osta (AES, MT 36, 2) read in context
Help me buy, do buy:
ku sai no upin ostetus (AES, MT 40, 30 (41)) read in context
When the scarf was bought,
tulgu ostma uose valda (AES MT 287, 4/14) read in context
Let them come buy to Uose land,

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
hobune	3,282	637
orjus	1,845	183
müts	1,510	211
peigmees	1,258	169
uus	1,043	252
õlu	966	201
ori	918	260
hobu	890	178

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
Teng, hobu, naine	109
Sirbiviskamise laul	92
Orjusest ostja	89
Oleks see mees minu!	71
Oleks	55
Ühes sõbrad	52
Tule mulle!	50
Tule mulle	48

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	136
Karksi	116
Kuusalu	113
Viljandi	91
Haljala	90
Halliste	89
Paistu	88
Ambla	86
Kolga-Jaani	81
Harju-Jaani	78

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	5
1850–1859	5
1860–1869	22
1870–1879	235
1880–1889	737
1890–1899	921
1900–1909	225
1910–1919	263
1920–1929	252
1930–1939	311
1940–1949	12

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	108
Karl Viljak	92
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	87
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	71
Oskar Philipp Kallas	50

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,174)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 4 (11), AES, MT 3, 9 (29), AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 22, 3, AES, MT 36, 2, AES, MT 40, 30 (41), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 141, 28, AES, MT 161, 23, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1), AES, MT 257, 22/3, AES, MT 262, 11, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 808/10 (4), E A 66/7 (122), E A 77/8 (143), E A 104 (1), E A 104 (3), E A 138 (9), E A 147 (1), E A 213/4 (10), E A 214/5 (12), E A 234/5 (4), E A 240/1 (8), E A 271/2 (31), E A 369 (13), E A 386, E A 397 (3), E A 400/1 (7), E A 404 (11), E A 444 (7), E A 445/6 (9), E A 448/9 (13), E A 493/4 (498), E A 584/6 (6), E A 621/2 (3), E A 626 (13), E A 646/7 (17), E A 663/7 (1), E A 722/5 (2), E A 780 (13), E A 838/9 (14), E A 877/8 (1), E A 881 (6), E A 899, E A 900 (3), E A 901 (6), E A 908 (10), E A 924/5 (6), E A 932/6 (2), E A 944 (7), E A 970/4 (8), E A 991 (2), E A 1056 (7), E A 1058/9 (9), E A 1060 (12), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 157-158, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 3/6 (10), EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 5/12-5/12p

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: ostaa

← osa otsa →

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.