peiu

‘groom’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	groom
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,431
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,433

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

peiu, peio, peiul, peiud, peiule, peigo, pejju, peiuks, peiut, peigude, peiusid, peiol, peiusida, peiust, peiod, peiole, peial, peigud, peiju, peiulta, peia, peigusid, peiulegi, peigusi, peiolõ, peiuga, peiukõnõ, peius, peiusse, peju, peiulä, peiussagi, peiü, peigul, peigü, peiult, peiulõ, peigudele, peigugi, peijehe … and 30 more of 70 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

peiu · 6

peigmees

EMS

peiu

hingedeaja sööming

peiu

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
groom (groom's, grooms, grooms')	5,895	91.8%
suitor (suitor's, suitors)	375	5.8%
little	202	3.1%
bridegroom (bridegroom's, bridegrooms)	85	1.3%
groomling	45	0.7%
peio	12	0.2%
Uses counted	6,422

Example verses

öitsa peiu vöit (AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6)) read in context
"Bloom, groom's victory!"
õõnapuud peiu päralta (AES, MT 29, 3) read in context
The apple trees are the groom’s domain.
lätsi ma peio peesitämmä (AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9)) read in context
I went to prepare the groom,
viidi minno peio kodo (AES, MT 40, 14/6 (18)) read in context
I was taken to the groom’s home,
peiu m laisk latsõst saani (AES, MT 44, 2/3) read in context
The groom got a lazy child,
peiu m iks vanas vaibunu (AES, MT 44, 3/4) read in context
I, the ancient ogre, have rested,
peiul mesi kindal (AES, MT 50, 4/5 (3)) read in context
The groom has honey in his mitten,
peiu tõi neiul siidipõlle (AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10)) read in context
The groom brought her a silk apron,

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
pink	1,320	211
särk	1,264	231
petma	971	170
pilutama	876	91
poisike	718	160
pesema	700	142
peen	655	128
pikk	462	165

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
Kaevul kosija	61
Lunastatav neiu	48
Kari kadunud	47
Tule mulle!	45
Tule mulle	43
Kaasa kaugel	41
Oleks see mees minu!	41
Isa- ja mehekodus	38

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Tõstamaa	147
Kuusalu	121
Haljala	102
Setumaa	96
Karksi	89
Sangaste	82
Paistu	81
Pärnu-Jaagupi	80
Kolga-Jaani	79
Muhu	75

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	3
1860–1869	19
1870–1879	229
1880–1889	853
1890–1899	991
1900–1909	220
1910–1919	235
1920–1929	344
1930–1939	328
1940–1949	17

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	120
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	104
Oskar Philipp Kallas	90
Karl Viljak	79
Gustav Seen	69

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,462)

ERAB: AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 29, 3, AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9), AES, MT 40, 14/6 (18), AES, MT 44, 2/3, AES, MT 44, 3/4, AES, MT 50, 4/5 (3), AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10), AES, MT 86, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 104, Part 13 (2), AES, MT 141, 10, AES, MT 141, 17, AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 180, 7 (a), AES, MT 180, 7/8 (c), AES, MT 186, 109, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES MT 208, 24/7, AES, MT 236, 38, AES, MT 236, 43/4, AES, MT 236, 49, AES, MT 236, 57, ARS 1, 469/70 (1), ARS 1, 478 (1), ARS 1, 654 (3), ARS 1, 655/6 (1), ARS 1, 812 (7), ARS 2, 259 (26), E A 50/1 (93), E A 130/3 (5), E A 172/4 (2), E A 198/9 (4), E A 227/8, E A 230, E A 241/2 (9), E A 264/7 (26), E A 308/14 (2), E A 320/2 (8), E A 383 (14), E A 384/3 (13), E A 405 (12), E A 435/7 (2), E A 440 (4), E A 471 (1), E A 477/81 (2), E A 505/6, E A 513 (7), E A 539, E A 565/6 (25), E A 579/80 (8), E A 586 (7), E A 593 (15), E A 593/4 (16), E A 595/8; 613/4, E A 629/30 (1), E A 663/7 (1), E A 674 (7), E A 739, E A 783 (17)

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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.