pestä
‘wash’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | wash |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,552 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,842, JR 1,709, KR 148 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
pese, pesi, pesen, pesty, pestä, pesee, pesemään, pessyt, pesisin, pesit, pessee, pestään, pesemässä, pesöö, pesemää, peze, peseä, peset, pesemättä, pessy, pesevi, pestiin, peseepi, pesemähän, pestyin, pesemästä, pesevät, pestessänsä, pesisit, pestyt, pessäis, pesemäh, pesemät, pesisi, pezen, pestii, peseikse, peskää, pesivät, pestynä … and 234 more of 274 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 |
|---|---|---|
| wash (washed, washes, washing) | 4,632 | 96.8% |
| nest (nested, nests) | 92 | 1.9% |
| unwashed | 31 | 0.6% |
| while | 23 | 0.5% |
| clean (cleaned) | 18 | 0.4% |
| cleanse | 11 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 4,784 |
Example verses
- pezi pikku poukuistaha (SKVR I1 24.) read in context
Washed the little one in a nook, - pesih kumartelih (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
Washed, bowed down, - hiero heinästä peseä (SKVR I1 63.) read in context
Rubbed grass for bedding, - hiero heinästä peseä (SKVR I1 79 a).) read in context
Rubbed a hay nest - hiero heinästä peseä (SKVR I1 91.) read in context
Rubbed clean with hay, - hiero heinästä peseä (SKVR I1 95.) read in context
Fashioned hay-nest, - hiero heinästä peseä (SKVR I1 97.) read in context
Rubbed a hay-bath - vanu vaskista peseä (SKVR I1 100.) read in context
Watched from copper nest,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| lusikka | 2,719 | 322 |
| pää | 1,931 | 678 |
| silmä | 1,735 | 403 |
| pieni | 1,403 | 381 |
| penkki | 1,152 | 191 |
| kissanpoika | 975 | 86 |
| pikkulintu | 958 | 102 |
| puhdas | 810 | 139 |
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).
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 | 167 |
| Suistamo | 122 |
| Soikkola | 115 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 106 |
| Ilomantsi | 87 |
| Suojärvi | 70 |
| Lempaala | 65 |
| Uhtua | 56 |
| Metsäpirtti | 49 |
| Vuole | 46 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 5 |
| 1700–1709 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 4 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 6 |
| 1820–1829 | 49 |
| 1830–1839 | 147 |
| 1840–1849 | 285 |
| 1850–1859 | 236 |
| 1860–1869 | 22 |
| 1870–1879 | 98 |
| 1880–1889 | 420 |
| 1890–1899 | 295 |
| 1900–1909 | 246 |
| 1910–1919 | 292 |
| 1920–1929 | 102 |
| 1930–1939 | 509 |
| 1940–1949 | 112 |
| 1950–1959 | 88 |
| 1960–1969 | 123 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 265 |
| Volmari Porkka | 126 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 113 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 91 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 85 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,049)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 63., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 130., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 238., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 289., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 444., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 462., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 481., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 487., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 507., SKVR I1 614 a)., SKVR I1 622 a)., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 9., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 4., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 5., SKVR I2 729., SKVR I2 744., SKVR I2 744 b)., SKVR I2 746., SKVR I2 759., SKVR I2 771., SKVR I2 772., SKVR I2 773., SKVR I2 774., SKVR I2 785., SKVR I2 786., SKVR I2 808., SKVR I2 811 a)., SKVR I2 816., SKVR I2 831., SKVR I2 850., SKVR I2 852., SKVR I2 1016., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1025.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: pesema
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.