otsa

‘end; forehead’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English gloss	end; forehead
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian and Finnish
Total occurrences	7,134
By corpus	SKVR 613, JR 458, KR 75 poems, ERAB 6,061

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

otsa, otsat, otsaa, otsaan, otsalla, otsass, otsahan, otsalta, otsalle, otsaksi, otsu, otsall, otsahasi, otsahas, otsain, otsansa, otshin, otsajaini, otsassain, otsastain, otsilla, uotsa, otsaansa, otsahain, otsaini, otsaisia, otsajani, otsam, otshan, otsina, otsaasi, otsahaasi, otsai, otsaisii, otsaki, otsallah, otsanne, otsastaini, odsassa, otsaast … and 41 more of 81 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

otsa · nom., harvem gen. · postp kõnek

1. pealmisele pinnale, ülemise osa peale; tipu, teraviku v. otsmise osa peale v. külge
2. lisaks, juurde
3. [nom., harvem gen.] (ajaliselt:) läbi, vältel; kestel, kogu ajavahemiku jooksul
1. peale, külge (eriti seoses liikumist väljendavate verbidega)

(+2)

EMS

otsa

pealmisele pinnale, peale; tipu, teraviku või otsmise osa peale või külge (rippuma)
lükitult millestki läbi
(ajaliselt:) läbi, vältel, kestel (ka muus käändevormis)
lisaks, juurde

(+5)

Idamurre

otsa

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
end (ends, end's, ended)	10,212	69.8%
tip (tips)	2,644	18.1%
forehead (foreheads, forehead's, foreheads')	930	6.4%
top	699	4.8%
until	181	1.2%
seek	39	0.3%
edge	17	0.1%
Uses counted	14,628

Example verses

otsalla oravalaukan (SKVR I1 397.) read in context
On the squirrel-strap's brow,
otsahan pyhän orihin (SKVR I1 473.) read in context
Onto the brow of the sacred stallion,
otsahan pyhän orihin (SKVR I1 473 b).) read in context
Onto the forehead of the holy stallion,
otsalla oravalaukan (SKVR I1 611.) read in context
On the squirrel-board's brow,
eks muo tükk saand enne otsa (AES, MT 3, 18) read in context
Did my care not reach you in time?
kesknädal otsa norskasin (AES, MT 3, 21) read in context
By Wednesday's end I snored,
pika põllupiendra otsa (AES, MT 3, 24) read in context
At the end of a long field border.
et mei otsa jo ajamme (AES, MT 5, 4) read in context
So we reach our goal already,

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
otava	797	69
merkki	261	29
oppi	225	29
ottaa	219	56
huominen	193	20
täht	175	29
kurikka	144	18
jäädä	117	19

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
Liiri-lõõri!	154
Lõikuselaul - ÜLD	100
Lõikuselaul	82
Pääsuke	73
Liiri-lõõri	72
Õlu viib meeled peast	72
Humal	60
Must naine	59

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	209
Paistu	167
Halliste	154
Karksi	150
Kuusalu	142
Narvusi	128
Kolga-Jaani	125
Tõstamaa	122
Ambla	115
Viljandi	111

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	2
1750–1759	1
1810–1819	1
1820–1829	10
1830–1839	11
1840–1849	78
1850–1859	72
1860–1869	70
1870–1879	323
1880–1889	1,101
1890–1899	1,364
1900–1909	400
1910–1919	396
1920–1929	493
1930–1939	706
1940–1949	66
1950–1959	12
1960–1969	11

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	161
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	122
Karl Viljak	101
Oskar Philipp Kallas	80
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	68

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,414)

SKVR: SKVR I1 397., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 611., SKVR I2 724., SKVR I2 845., SKVR I2 856., SKVR I2 1059., SKVR I2 1061., SKVR I2 1062., SKVR I2 1063., SKVR I2 1191., SKVR I3 1299., SKVR I3 1654., SKVR I3 1736., SKVR I3 1739., SKVR I3 1886., SKVR I3 2034., SKVR I4 1028., SKVR I4 1086., SKVR I4 1827., SKVR I4 2007., SKVR I4 2210., SKVR I4 2210 a)., SKVR I4 2253., SKVR I4 2330., SKVR I4 2432., SKVR II 89., SKVR II 156., SKVR II 326., SKVR II 490., SKVR II 492., SKVR II 493 a)., SKVR II 494., SKVR II 497., SKVR II 498., SKVR II 499., SKVR II 541., SKVR II 676., SKVR III1 39., SKVR III1 48., SKVR III1 72., SKVR III1 96., SKVR III1 121., SKVR III1 149., SKVR III1 168., SKVR III1 207., SKVR III1 231., SKVR III1 302., SKVR III1 350., SKVR III1 359., SKVR III1 402., SKVR III1 481., SKVR III1 510., SKVR III1 546., SKVR III1 629., SKVR III1 657., SKVR III1 691., SKVR III1 696., SKVR III1 749.

Related lemmas

In Estonian, form of ots
Estonian cognate: ots

← ostma otsima →

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.