paimen
‘shepherd’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | shepherd |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,819 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,133, JR 1,686, KR 139 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
paimen, paimenen, paimeneksi, paimenessa, paimenelle, paimenet, paimeneks, paimenille, paimeneen, paimenehen, paimosen, paimenta, paimenell, paimenee, paimenella, paime, paimenena, paimeneh, paimeness, paimenel, paimenekse, paimenia, paimenten, paimenesta, paimene, paimenes, paimenelta, paimenien, paimenie, paimena, paimenem, paimenetta, paimenil, paimenista, paimenih, paemenelle, paimenissa, paemenessa, paimeneeks, paimeniksi … and 131 more of 171 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 |
|---|---|---|
| shepherd (shepherd's, shepherds, shepherding, shepherds') | 4,066 | 87.6% |
| herdsman (herdsman's, herdsmen) | 263 | 5.7% |
| herder (herders, herder's) | 221 | 4.8% |
| herd (herding) | 94 | 2.0% |
| Uses counted | 4,644 |
Example verses
- suuri olisi paimenen paloksi (SKVR I1 163 a).) read in context
"A big [man] would serve as fire," - paimenet pajusin sauvoin (SKVR I1 227.) read in context
- olin piennä paimenessa (SKVR I1 235.) read in context
I was small [when] in shepherding, - paimen vastahan tuleepi (SKVR I1 376.) read in context
A shepherd comes to meet him, - paimen patsahan tyvestä (SKVR I1 553.) read in context
A shepherd from the pillar's base: - paimen patsahan tyvestä (SKVR I1 553 a).) read in context
- paimen patsahan takoa (SKVR I1 562.) read in context
The shepherd struck the statue: - paimen patsahan takoa (SKVR I1 564.) read in context
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 |
|---|---|---|
| panna | 2,360 | 585 |
| paistaa | 1,347 | 243 |
| eväs | 1,147 | 135 |
| poika | 1,142 | 427 |
| parka | 1,108 | 161 |
| pieni | 915 | 278 |
| paha | 697 | 264 |
| päivä | 645 | 229 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Kalevanpojan kosto | 216 |
| Kalervo ja Untamo | 119 |
| Läksin piennä paimeneen | 119 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 108 |
| Paista, päivä, paimenille | 97 |
| Taivaassa, tätilässä paimenena | 82 |
| Karhua vastaan | 75 |
| Varkaalle menijä | 60 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Lempaala | 135 |
| Narvusi | 121 |
| Sakkola | 104 |
| Suistamo | 99 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 92 |
| Vuole | 85 |
| Uusikirkko Vpl. | 63 |
| Soikkola | 55 |
| Rautu | 55 |
| Uhtua | 52 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 7 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1740–1749 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 5 |
| 1760–1769 | 4 |
| 1780–1789 | 8 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 20 |
| 1820–1829 | 47 |
| 1830–1839 | 134 |
| 1840–1849 | 287 |
| 1850–1859 | 226 |
| 1860–1869 | 26 |
| 1870–1879 | 115 |
| 1880–1889 | 291 |
| 1890–1899 | 359 |
| 1900–1909 | 214 |
| 1910–1919 | 289 |
| 1920–1929 | 82 |
| 1930–1939 | 548 |
| 1940–1949 | 113 |
| 1950–1959 | 115 |
| 1960–1969 | 61 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 222 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 107 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 106 |
| A. A. Borenius | 93 |
| A. D. Neovius | 91 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,969)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 235., SKVR I1 376., SKVR I1 553., SKVR I1 553 a)., SKVR I1 562., SKVR I1 564., SKVR I1 567., SKVR I1 569., SKVR I1 682., SKVR I1 689., SKVR I1 693., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 705., SKVR I2 706., SKVR I2 707., SKVR I2 709., SKVR I2 710., SKVR I2 711., SKVR I2 712., SKVR I2 713., SKVR I2 714., SKVR I2 717., SKVR I2 719., SKVR I2 722., SKVR I2 722 a)., SKVR I2 724., SKVR I2 725., SKVR I2 726., SKVR I2 728., SKVR I2 728 a)., SKVR I2 738., SKVR I2 739., SKVR I2 741., SKVR I2 742., SKVR I2 743., SKVR I2 744., SKVR I2 744 b)., SKVR I2 746., SKVR I2 753., SKVR I2 754., SKVR I2 757., SKVR I2 765., SKVR I2 771., SKVR I2 773., SKVR I2 774., SKVR I2 781., SKVR I2 802., SKVR I2 810., SKVR I2 811., SKVR I2 813., SKVR I2 819., SKVR I2 834., SKVR I2 838., SKVR I2 846., SKVR I2 855., SKVR I2 856., SKVR I2 908., SKVR I2 910.
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.