päev

‘day; sun’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	day; sun
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	14,665
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 14,665

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

päeva, pääva, päiva, päe, päev, päävä, päevad, päeval, päiv, päevä, päivi, pääv, päevas, pääval, päävad, päevaks, päävas, pääväl, päävaks, päevale, päevi, päiväd, päiväl, päival, päävast, päeväs, päevalegi, päevast, pääväst, pääväs, päivas, päeväl, päivad, päive, päevasida, päävi, päiväs, päevake, päeväd, päivast … and 148 more of 188 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

päev · -a 23

1. päikesetõusu ja -loojaku vaheline (valge) ajavahemik, ülaloleku aeg (varahommikust hilisõhtuni)
2. kalendripäev, ööpäev (umbmääraselt v. konkreetselt)
3. päike

EMS

päev

valge ajavahemik ööpäevast, aeg hommikust õhtuni
tegevuses olemise aeg, tööpäev
ööpäev, kalendripäev
teat eripäraga aeg

(+2)

Idamurre

päev

päike

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
day (day's, days)	17,199	91.2%
sun (sun's)	1,618	8.6%
head (head's)	120	0.6%
little	34	0.2%
until	23	0.1%
Uses counted	18,868

Example verses

ise peala kui see pääva (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
Its top like that sun,
kas saa sust iks päävä naist (AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19)) read in context
Can one get from you a Day's wife,
sind mina otsin üüd ja päevad (AES, MT 43, 56/7) read in context
I seek you night and day,
üüsi õitses päeva päitses (AES, MT 43, 58) read in context
Night adorned, day harnessed,
ise peale kui see päeva (AES, MT 43, 73) read in context
Himself above like the day,
päe pastab pangivitsust kaske (AES, MT 45, 5/8) read in context
päiv lätt ku veretes (AES, MT 54, 1 (1)) read in context
The sun departs as in blood,
sui ta üöd ja päävad tüös (AES, MT 66, 10/12) read in context
In summer, nights and days at work,

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
öö	2,807	527
paistma	2,806	473
peale	2,673	1,142
iga	2,194	466
paar	2,064	377
pea	1,906	664
kuu	1,686	540
pärnu	1,548	246

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
Oleks see mees minu!	289
Tähemõrsja	221
Oleks	208
Salme	205
Ema haual	148
Tule mulle!	147
Tule mulle	140
Venna otsija	126

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	515
Haljala	309
Karksi	303
Kuusalu	271
Halliste	262
Paistu	257
Ambla	213
Helme	205
Kolga-Jaani	186
Viljandi	184

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	9
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	7
1850–1859	7
1860–1869	80
1870–1879	565
1880–1889	1,872
1890–1899	2,369
1900–1909	558
1910–1919	565
1920–1929	687
1930–1939	790
1940–1949	54
1950–1959	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	231
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	225
Karl Viljak	204
Oskar Philipp Kallas	163
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	137

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,074)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 58, AES, MT 43, 73, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 54, 1 (1), AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 70, 35, AES, MT 76, 34/5 (6), AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 88, 36, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 117, 63/4 (23), AES, MT 117, 66 (27), AES, MT 117, 66/7 (28), AES, MT 137, 20/1 (2), AES, MT 141, 24/5, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 154, 1/2, AES, MT 161, 23, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1), AES, MT 163, 8/10 (5), AES, MT 174, 30, AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 183, 16, AES, MT 186, 113, AES, MT 205, 1/4, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES, MT 216, 26, AES, MT 217, 1/2, AES, MT 230, 16/7, AES, MT 230, 19, AES, MT 252, 7, AES, MT 257, 22/3, AES, MT 257, 23/5, AES, MT 266, 7, ARS 1, 411/3 (4), ARS 1, 435/7 (1), ARS 1, 483/7 (3), ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 519/23 (1), ARS 1, 649/50 (1), ARS 1, 850 (6), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 900 (3), ARS 2, 28/32 (2a), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), ARS 2, 97/9 (22), ARS 2, 699/704 (1), E A 5/6 (6), E A 29/30 (10), E A 34 (54), E A 64/5 (118), E A 67/8 (124), E A 72/3 (133), E A 74/5 (138), E A 98, E A 107 (24), E A 107 (25)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: päivä

← pyhä päivä →

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.