piä
‘head’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | head |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 5,368 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,854, JR 2,514, KR 72 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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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) | 586 | 99.5% |
| Uses counted | 589 |
Example verses
- piä kulta terä hopie (SKVR I1 257.) read in context
Hilt of gold, blade of silver, - piä kulta terä hopie (SKVR I1 630.) read in context
Head gold, blade silver, - piä keikku kemin jovella (SKVR I2 704.) read in context
- piä keikku kemin jovessa (SKVR I2 716.) read in context
Head sways in Kemi's river; - piä keikku kemin jovella (SKVR I2 718.) read in context
- piä keikku kemijovella (SKVR I2 754.) read in context
Its head swung at Kemijoki, - piä tina terä hopije (SKVR I2 819.) read in context
"Head of tin, blade of silver." - piä keikku kemin jovella (SKVR I2 883.) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| istua | 456 | 87 |
| silta | 455 | 64 |
| pöytä | 328 | 45 |
| kanto | 319 | 47 |
| surra | 269 | 37 |
| tänäkin | 162 | 15 |
| hattu | 142 | 22 |
| luoja | 119 | 27 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Suistamo | 51 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 31 |
| Salmi | 22 |
| Juva | 20 |
| Kontokki | 17 |
| Uhtua | 17 |
| Kitee | 15 |
| Kontiolahti | 15 |
| Rautu | 14 |
| Rääkkylä | 13 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1810–1819 | 15 |
| 1830–1839 | 4 |
| 1840–1849 | 3 |
| 1850–1859 | 2 |
| 1860–1869 | 1 |
| 1870–1879 | 17 |
| 1880–1889 | 21 |
| 1890–1899 | 66 |
| 1900–1909 | 55 |
| 1910–1919 | 53 |
| 1920–1929 | 7 |
| 1930–1939 | 185 |
| 1940–1949 | 42 |
| 1950–1959 | 23 |
| 1960–1969 | 13 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Iivo Härkönen | 27 |
| Iivari Ievala | 24 |
| Antti Rytkönen | 21 |
| Väinö Kaukonen | 19 |
| K. A. Gottlund | 17 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 507)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 257., SKVR I1 630., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 716., SKVR I2 718., SKVR I2 754., SKVR I2 819., SKVR I2 883., SKVR I2 887., SKVR I2 888., SKVR I2 891., SKVR I2 1129., SKVR I3 1678., SKVR I3 1686 a)., SKVR I3 1688., SKVR I3 1724., SKVR I3 1726., SKVR I3 1733., SKVR I3 1734., SKVR I4 397., SKVR I4 402 a)., SKVR I4 404., SKVR I4 405., SKVR I4 546., SKVR I4 599 b)., SKVR I4 621., SKVR I4 680., SKVR I4 739., SKVR I4 1909., SKVR I4 2156., SKVR I4 2210., SKVR I4 2252., SKVR I4 2255., SKVR I4 2261., SKVR I4 2401., SKVR II 99., SKVR II 543., SKVR II 741., SKVR II 742., SKVR II 745., SKVR II 747., SKVR II 748., SKVR II 1057., SKVR IV1 641., SKVR IV2 2354., SKVR IV2 2355., SKVR IV2 2389., SKVR IV2 2416., SKVR IV2 2432., SKVR IV2 2435., SKVR IV2 2609., SKVR IV2 2618., SKVR IV2 2620., SKVR IV3 2895., SKVR IV3 2899., SKVR IV3 2939., SKVR IV3 2951., SKVR IV3 3014., SKVR IV3 3017., SKVR IV3 3029.
Related lemmas
- Dialect spelling of pää
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.
Where a spelling can also be another word, it counts on this page only where the AI analysis read it as this word: piä
In Finnish: piä
Every use of this spelling shown on this page was checked again against its verse in a separate AI reading, and uses read as another word were left out.
Uses checked: 594
Read as this page’s word: 577
Unclear: 17
The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.
In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 594
Uses left out as another word: 604
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 88