pea

‘head’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	head
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	22,835
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 22,833

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

pea, pead, pia, peada, pähe, päida, pääda, peas, pääd, peasta, pähä, päha, peassa, peast, peaga, päid, pääga, pääh, peust, peata, peasa, peani, päile, peuna, peädä, peäd, peat, peade, piälta, päheje, peasse, piave, peusa, pealle, peasi, peäda, päidi, peass, peälla, pääge … and 92 more of 132 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

pea · adv

1. peatselt, varsti; kiiresti, ruttu
2. peaaegu; ligikaudu, umbes

pea; · s piltl

1. inimese keha ülemine ajude ja meeleorganitega varustatud ning kerest kaelaga eraldatud osa
2. muu elusolendi vastav kehaosa
3. pea psüühiliste protsesside ja tunnete asupaiga ning võrdkujuna
4. inimene v. loom

(+5)

EMS

pea

inimese kehaosa
(sisekohakäänetes:) rõhutab millegi pea juurde kuulumist
(esemetest)
pea juustega kaetud osa; juuksed, soeng

(+20)

pea-

pea-

Idamurre

pea

varsti umbes

pea

mõistus ots

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
head (heads, head's, heads', headed)	15,136	97.7%
must	68	0.4%
headless	32	0.2%
upon	27	0.2%
top (tops)	17	0.1%
Uses counted	15,492

Example verses

valge peaga poisikselle (AES, MT 3, 1 (2)) read in context
To a white-haired lad?
peas pilvekõrgust mütsi (AES, MT 3, 5 (13)) read in context
On head, no cloud-high hat,
ega tema siiski pead ei kata (AES, MT 3, 21) read in context
And still he does not shelter [you]!
suen pia pesen silmad (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
I dress swiftly, wash my eyes,
ma lää iks pia pihkevahe (AES, MT 40, 30 (41)) read in context
I will soon go to Pskov,
padi pea all päävakirja (AES, MT 42, 9) read in context
Under the pillow, a day-tracking ledger,
naaris päha lopsti (AES, MT 43, 72) read in context
Gnawed [and] slapped on the head.
kuhu pian pia panema (AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3)) read in context
Where shall I find refuge?

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
pärg	4,956	716
sugema	4,476	558
panema	3,523	1,571
kübar	2,976	657
päits	2,055	370
silitama	2,020	290
päev	1,906	664
meel	1,587	585

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
Ema haual	480
Venna sõjalugu	348
Sõjalaul	244
Tule mulle!	218
Tule mulle	211
Oleks see mees minu!	200
Oleks	142
Karske neiu	137

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Haljala	467
Ambla	367
Setumaa	360
Kuusalu	331
Tõstamaa	306
Karksi	305
Paistu	294
Kolga-Jaani	287
Kadrina	272
Väike-Maarja	267

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	18
1830–1839	4
1840–1849	11
1850–1859	6
1860–1869	94
1870–1879	713
1880–1889	2,645
1890–1899	3,308
1900–1909	705
1910–1919	939
1920–1929	981
1930–1939	1,126
1940–1949	64

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	470
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	351
Karl Viljak	310
Oskar Philipp Kallas	235
koguja teadmata	181

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 11,332)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 1 (2), AES, MT 3, 5 (13), AES, MT 3, 21, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 40, 30 (41), AES, MT 42, 9, AES, MT 43, 72, AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3), AES, MT 54, 5 (7), AES, MT 64, 25, AES, MT 65, 12/3, AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 8/10, AES, MT 76, 1/2 (1), AES, MT 76, 15 (7), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 18/9, AES, MT 88, 37, AES, MT 90, 12/3, AES, MT 102, 21 (3), AES, MT 141, 25/6, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1), AES, MT 165, 5/66, AES, MT 174, 30, AES, MT 174, 37/8, AES, MT 174, 39, AES, MT 174, 42/3, AES, MT 197, 28, AES, MT 204, 56/7, AES, MT 205, 9, AES, MT 205, 9/10, AES MT 208, 24/7, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES MT 210, 13/4, AES, MT 219, 14, AES, MT 230, 6/7, AES, MT 230, 8/9, AES, MT 266, 7, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 482/3 (2), ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 1, 868 (7), ARS 1, 900 (1), ARS 1, 900 (3), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), ARS 2, 28/32 (2a), ARS 2, 39/46 (6), ARS 2, 97/9 (22), E A 3/4 (2), E A 5/6 (6), E A 6 (7), E A 10 (14), E A 15 (25), E A 19 (1), E A 27 (4), E A 31 (12), E A 33 (53)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: pää

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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.