pieni
‘small’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective
| English gloss | small |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 14,954 |
| By corpus | SKVR 7,783, JR 7,170, KR 458 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
pieni, pienen, pienet, pientä, pieniä, piennä, pien, pienellä, pienillä, piene, pienii, pienistä, pienin, pienten, pienestä, pienempänä, pienel, pienelle, piänet, pienikin, pienelleni, pienoi, pieneksi, pienenä, pienijä, pieniksi, pieneen, pienille, pienemmät, pienempi, piendä, pienessä, pienem, peen, peenet, peenen, pienempiä, pieniltä, pienist, pienest … and 323 more of 363 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 |
|---|---|---|
| small (small's, smaller, smallest) | 23,590 | 91.4% |
| little (little's) | 1,733 | 6.7% |
| tiny | 477 | 1.8% |
| even | 60 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 25,800 |
Example verses
- pyyhki pienen pirttisensä (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Wiped her small cabin, - puuhki pienem pirttizenzä (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
- piäskun pienillä sulilla (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
- peäskyn pienillä sulilla (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
With wagtail's small feathers, - pääskön pienillä sulilla (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
With a swallow's small feathers, - peäskön pienillä sulilla (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
- nuo pienetki lintusete (SKVR I1 26.) read in context
Even tiny birds - munan pienemmät murusetki (SKVR I1 38 a).) read in context
The egg's smaller crumbs,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| lintu | 9,441 | 1,798 |
| kelkka | 3,716 | 522 |
| poika | 3,539 | 1,432 |
| etkä | 3,531 | 508 |
| suuri | 3,135 | 1,020 |
| lapsi | 3,107 | 1,253 |
| peite | 2,956 | 358 |
| kananpoika | 2,522 | 289 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Raudan sanat | 341 |
| Raudan synty | 339 |
| Verensulku | 190 |
| Hiiri metsähän menevi | 182 |
| Kalervo ja Untamo | 170 |
| Uni ulkoa kysyy | 160 |
| Aa aa allin lasta | 153 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 151 |
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 | 507 |
| Suistamo | 326 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 307 |
| Soikkola | 297 |
| Saarijärvi | 271 |
| Lempaala | 249 |
| Ilomantsi | 230 |
| Sakkola | 225 |
| Vuole | 203 |
| Kivennapa | 167 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1670–1679 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 7 |
| 1700–1709 | 15 |
| 1720–1729 | 1 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 5 |
| 1760–1769 | 6 |
| 1770–1779 | 2 |
| 1780–1789 | 25 |
| 1800–1809 | 7 |
| 1810–1819 | 85 |
| 1820–1829 | 152 |
| 1830–1839 | 416 |
| 1840–1849 | 782 |
| 1850–1859 | 784 |
| 1860–1869 | 97 |
| 1870–1879 | 314 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,336 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,020 |
| 1900–1909 | 835 |
| 1910–1919 | 1,219 |
| 1920–1929 | 499 |
| 1930–1939 | 2,548 |
| 1940–1949 | 506 |
| 1950–1959 | 633 |
| 1960–1969 | 579 |
| 1970–1979 | 8 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 759 |
| Volmari Porkka | 387 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 326 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 296 |
| Frans Kärki | 295 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 11,910)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 124., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 164., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 235., SKVR I1 255., SKVR I1 257., SKVR I1 268., SKVR I1 269., SKVR I1 278., SKVR I1 279., SKVR I1 280., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 287., SKVR I1 288., SKVR I1 293., SKVR I1 298 b)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 308., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 337., SKVR I1 343.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: peen
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.