paimen

‘shepherd’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	shepherd
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	4,960
By corpus	SKVR 3,133, JR 1,686, KR 141 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.

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Attested wordforms

paimen, paimenen, paimeneksi, paimenna, paimoi, paimenehe, paimem, paimo, paimenenna, paimenexi, paimoil, paimosella, paimosien, paemenee, paimoihut, paemenen, paimenihi, paimoin, paimojen, paimoset, paimenut, paimon, paimosille, paimeluissa, paimenda, paimenden, paimenessä, paimenis, paimentakaan, paimesen, paimi, paimistele, paimoill, paimoizem, paimojaa, paimoze, paimozeh, paimozeli, pascainengin, pasikoia … and 231 more of 271 attested forms

English senses in context

How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.

Sense	Share
shepherd	62.4%
shepherd's	12.2%
shepherds	9.1%
herdsman	4.8%
herder	3.4%
shepherding	2.5%
herding	2.0%
shepherds'	1.4%
herder's	0.7%
herders	0.7%

Example verses

suuri olisi paimenen paloksi (SKVR I1 163 a).) read in context
"A big [man] would serve as fire,"
lähem piennä paimenehe (SKVR I1 227.) read in context
I'll go as a lowly shepherd,
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:
paimo patsahan nenästä (SKVR I1 563.) read in context
The shepherd from the statue's nose.
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	188
Kalervo ja Untamo	99
Lemminkäisen virsi	63
Paista, päivä, paimenille	51
Tule tänne tyttöpaimen	50
Karhua vastaan	45
Varkaalle menijä	29
Löysin karjan kankahalta, panin paimenen papiksi	26

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	70
Lempaala	58
Suistamo	56
Sakkola	50
Vuokkiniemi	46
Vuole	41
Uhtua	40
Kontokki	34
Soikkola	32
Uusikirkko Vpl.	29

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	10
1750–1759	1
1760–1769	3
1780–1789	5
1800–1809	1
1810–1819	9
1820–1829	24
1830–1839	73
1840–1849	157
1850–1859	128
1860–1869	17
1870–1879	81
1880–1889	174
1890–1899	185
1900–1909	123
1910–1919	175
1920–1929	39
1930–1939	256
1940–1949	52
1950–1959	48
1960–1969	32

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	127
A. A. Borenius	71
D. E. D. Europaeus	61
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	52
A. D. Neovius	46

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 1,604)

SKVR: SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 376., SKVR I1 553., SKVR I1 553 a)., SKVR I1 562., SKVR I1 563., SKVR I1 564., SKVR I1 567., SKVR I1 569., SKVR I1 689., SKVR I1 690., SKVR I1 690 a)., SKVR I2 702., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 710., SKVR I2 712., SKVR I2 716., SKVR I2 722., SKVR I2 722 a)., SKVR I2 724., SKVR I2 725., 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 752., SKVR I2 757., SKVR I2 774., SKVR I2 802., SKVR I2 810., SKVR I2 811., SKVR I2 855., SKVR I2 908., SKVR I2 910., SKVR I2 911., SKVR I2 912., SKVR I2 912 a)., SKVR I2 916., SKVR I2 919., SKVR I2 922., SKVR I2 923., SKVR I2 924., SKVR I2 926., SKVR I2 928., SKVR I2 933., SKVR I2 934., SKVR I2 935., SKVR I2 935 a)., SKVR I2 935 b)., SKVR I2 936., SKVR I2 937., SKVR I2 938., SKVR I2 939., SKVR I2 940., SKVR I2 941.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: paime

← paha paistaa →

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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.