pere

‘family’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	family
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,319
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,319

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

pere, peressa, peresse, peresta, perele, pereta, peres, peret, perel, perest, pereh, pereje, perre, perrehe, perese, perega, pereht, pered, perelta, perena, perede, perrele, pereleni, peresa, peressä, perrekene, perrel, peresida, perete, peretä, perrest, pereke, perelt, pereläni, perres, peredes, peredesse, perellä, perga, perägi … and 39 more of 79 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

pere; · s hrv

1. ühte leibkonda kuuluvate inimeste kogum, hrl. perekond (endisajal kaasa arvatud ka teenijad)
2. talu (koos selle elanikega), majapidamine
3. (mingi olulise tunnuse põhjal moodustuva rühma kohta:)
4. ühe pesa (hrl. taru) mesilaste, harvemini kuklaste kogum

EMS

pere

perekond; ühe leibkonna inimesed
teenijaskond
koduhoidja
(loomadest:) pesakond, perekond

(+2)

pere-

pere-

Idamurre

pere

talu

Seto

pere

liige; külaline tõõsõʔ sõ̭ sarõt‿teeneväʔ võõrast

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 · Seto 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
family (family's, families, families')	4,165	76.4%
household (household's, households, households')	1,141	20.9%
house (house's)	63	1.2%
farm (farm's)	41	0.8%
master	17	0.3%
little	13	0.2%
until	12	0.2%
less	6	0.1%
Uses counted	5,454

Example verses

pere plika poisikeisi (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Family's girl, [and] boys
keskelt keige perele (AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6)) read in context
From the middle to all kin
pere pikad poisikesed (AES, MT 66, 10/12) read in context
The family's tall boys,
petab pere peene neiu (AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5)) read in context
deceives the household’s slender maiden.
aitüma pere nuoremad (AES, MT 84, 3/7) read in context
Thanks to the household youth,
pettid pere nuore neiu (AES, MT 141, 2/3) read in context
You deceived the family's young maiden.
isändäd ige peressä (AES, MT 141, 8) read in context
Masters forever in the family,
panin ma pere magama (AES, MT 141, 21/22) read in context
I put the household to sleep,

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
peksma	2,623	393
muu	1,717	473
peerg	1,089	125
peen	1,031	187
petma	899	169
perse	647	142
pidama	622	193
pink	615	127

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
Teng, hobu, naine	118
Mardilaul	115
Petis peiu	109
Kass kaevus	74
Isa- ja mehekodus	60
Lauliku soost	51
Tule mulle	50
Tule mulle!	49

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	209
Setumaa	153
Haljala	118
Ambla	93
Kadrina	89
Karksi	84
Tarvastu	75
Vigala	73
välismaa	70
Türi	66

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	1
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	1
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	24
1870–1879	231
1880–1889	848
1890–1899	1,047
1900–1909	216
1910–1919	297
1920–1929	321
1930–1939	378
1940–1949	23

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	136
Karl Viljak	116
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	106
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	86
Oskar Philipp Kallas	79

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,569)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 141, 2/3, AES, MT 141, 8, AES, MT 141, 21/22, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 141, 39, AES, MT 174, 40, AES, MT 200, 63/4, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 31/2, AES MT 208, 24/7, AES, MT 230, 3/5, AES, MT 261, 33/4, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 400/1 (3), ARS 1, 408 (1), ARS 1, 420/1 (1), ARS 1, 442 (1), ARS 1, 461/3 (4), ARS 1, 496/9 (9), ARS 1, 527/31 (1), ARS 2, 28/32 (2a), ARS 2, 34/5 (3), ARS 2, 72/3 (10), ARS 2, 326 (93), E A 5 (5), E A 5/6 (6), E A 26/7 (3), E A 53/4 (92, 93), E A 53/4 (92, 93), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 57 (101), E A 124 (5), E A 216/8 (15), E A 222/1 (16), E A 230, E A 308/14 (2), E A 336 (22), E A 357 (3), E A 405 (12), E A 446/7 (10), E A 551/2 (11), E A 573/4 (35), E A 600/1 (3), E A 624/5 (9), E A 650/2 (21), E A 674 (7), E A 682 (2), E A 721/2 (1), E A 722/5 (2), E A 751/3 (713b), E A 753, E A 762/3 (5), E A 802 (11), E A 817/8 (7)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: perhe

← pelto pestä →

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.

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: perga, perellä, peretä, perägi