pää

‘head’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English gloss	head
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian and Finnish
Total occurrences	25,456
By corpus	SKVR 16,331, JR 9,099, KR 900 poems, ERAB 19

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

pää, päässä, päästä, päätä, päähän, pään, peällä, päitä, pääs, päät, peä, pääni, peästä, päätäni, peän, päänä, piäni, pääsä, piätä, päänsä, päähä, peähä, peänä, päistä, peähän, päi, peäs, piähä, päällesi, päätänsä, päissä, peäälle, peät, peäni, päätään, pä, päillä, peäh, päälen, pääksi … and 492 more of 532 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

pää · interj

1. nõutust, teadmatust osutav hüüatus
2. ootamatust, pettumust, ka võidu- v. kahjurõõmu väljendav hüüatus

pää · 16

EMS

pää(-)

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, 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
head (heads, head's, heads', headed)	24,963	83.1%
end (ends, ended, end's)	2,638	8.8%
top (tops)	812	2.7%
upon	182	0.6%
day (day's, days, days')	140	0.5%
surface (surfaces, surface's)	136	0.5%
tip (tips, tip's)	119	0.4%
towards	55	0.2%
get (got, gets)	52	0.2%
yourself	51	0.2%
Uses counted	30,038

Example verses

petäjäissä pölkyn peänä (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
As a stump in pines.
pedäjäissä pölkum peänä (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
In pines as a log's head.
lendi peällä väinöm purren (SKVR I1 3.) read in context
Flew over Väinö's ship.
piähä polven väinämöizen (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
On Väinö's knee
pää meil pää meil ellad vennad (AES, MT 3, 11 (38)) read in context
Our head, our head, living brothers,
teised teine pää järele (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
Others follow the second time.
pää tärises tändarända (AES, MT 19, 2) read in context
[His] head quivered hither and thither;
sui ma pää mõsi suu (AES, MT 22, 1) read in context
I washed my head, rinsed my mouth.

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
uuni	5,573	1,061
pöytä	4,110	803
istua	3,695	1,389
päivä	3,580	1,661
tuntumaton	3,242	488
kanto	2,958	710
panna	2,465	1,601
pestä	1,931	678

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
Käärmeen sanat	359
Laivaretki	321
Käärmeen synty	311
Kanteleen synty	242
Kanteleen soitto	236
Lemminkäisen virsi	196
Iivana Kojosenpoika	194
Veneenveisto	185

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	1,047
Vuokkiniemi	705
Soikkola	658
Lempaala	591
Suistamo	395
Vuole	371
Sakkola	353
Ilomantsi	350
Uhtua	321
Setumaa	318

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1640–1649	1
1650–1659	4
1660–1669	1
1690–1699	9
1700–1709	40
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	6
1760–1769	7
1770–1779	5
1780–1789	73
1800–1809	16
1810–1819	151
1820–1829	294
1830–1839	896
1840–1849	1,614
1850–1859	1,405
1860–1869	212
1870–1879	1,093
1880–1889	3,231
1890–1899	2,604
1900–1909	1,513
1910–1919	1,829
1920–1929	816
1930–1939	2,771
1940–1949	434
1950–1959	435
1960–1969	424
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	1,599
Volmari Porkka	885
D. E. D. Europaeus	625
Kaarle Krohn	599
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	569

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 20,093)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: pää

← päivä päästä →

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.

Where a spelling can also be another word, it counts on this page only where the AI analysis read it as this word: päästä

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Estonian: peän
In Finnish: päh

The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.

In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 3,583
Uses left out as another word: 22
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0

In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 26,902
Uses left out as another word: 1,192
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 381