piika

‘maid’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	maid
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	6,831
By corpus	SKVR 3,851, JR 2,980, KR 345 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

piika, piiat, piian, piijan, piijat, piikaa, piikoja, piikain, piialle, piikana, piikueni, piikat, piikasein, piikaiseni, piikani, piikan, piikoi, piikojen, pijka, piialta, piikoin, piikka, piikal, piikojansa, piikojasi, piikojani, piiaksi, piijalle, piikojaan, piija, piioille, piioista, piikuuvee, piialla, piikalle, piikasi, piijalta, piikoina, piiasta, piijam … and 215 more of 255 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EMS

piika

Sources: 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
maid (maids, maid's, maids')	8,980	93.6%
maiden (maidens, maiden's, maidens')	353	3.7%
girl (girls)	175	1.8%
little	103	1.1%
maidservant	88	0.9%
Uses counted	9,596

Example verses

pani piijat liettsomaha (SKVR I1 24.) read in context
oi on piika pikkarainen (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
"Oh tiny little maid,
piiat pilkka vessetäh (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
pohjon piika pikkarainen (SKVR I1 64.) read in context
Pohjola's tiny maid,
sillä kostan piian pilkan (SKVR I1 80.) read in context
"Thus I avenge the scorn:"
pohjan piika pikkarainen (SKVR I1 108.) read in context
Northland’s little maid
pyhä piika pikkarainen (SKVR I1 281.) read in context
Holy little maiden,
pyh on piika pikkaraine (SKVR I1 284.) read in context
Holy is the tiny maid,

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
pikkarainen	3,044	368
pieni	2,132	592
kirsti	2,110	285
pyhä	1,966	401
pitää	1,793	453
pilkka	1,713	203
etsiä	1,125	271
pirtapuu	1,088	95

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
Lemmennostoloitsut	129
Synnytys	116
Hevonen kadonnut veljeltä	92
Pom pom porovatsa	75
Tulen sanat	71
Hämeen ihmeet	69
Pakeneva	64
Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, lapsenpiika torkkumaan	58

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Lempaala	206
Narvusi	195
Suistamo	180
Ilomantsi	160
Sakkola	135
Vuokkiniemi	130
Vuole	130
Soikkola	100
Rautu	89
Suojärvi	73

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1680–1689	1
1690–1699	1
1700–1709	13
1750–1759	3
1780–1789	20
1800–1809	2
1810–1819	24
1820–1829	83
1830–1839	278
1840–1849	588
1850–1859	427
1860–1869	24
1870–1879	105
1880–1889	653
1890–1899	539
1900–1909	379
1910–1919	646
1920–1929	170
1930–1939	880
1940–1949	149
1950–1959	178
1960–1969	162
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	560
Kaarle Krohn	175
D. E. D. Europaeus	174
A. D. Neovius	168
Frans Kärki	145

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,344)

SKVR: SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 438., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 450., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 454., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 459., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 478., SKVR I1 479., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 500., SKVR I1 507., SKVR I1 509., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 518., SKVR I1 624., SKVR I1 683., SKVR I1 erill. [Polvenhaava] 1., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 4., SKVR I2 703., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 705., SKVR I2 710., SKVR I2 845., SKVR I2 847., SKVR I2 924., SKVR I2 928., SKVR I2 931., SKVR I2 935., SKVR I2 935 a)., SKVR I2 936., SKVR I2 941., SKVR I2 943., SKVR I2 943 a)., SKVR I2 943 b)., SKVR I2 945., SKVR I2 946., SKVR I2 953., SKVR I2 957 a)., SKVR I2 960 a)., SKVR I2 965., SKVR I2 969.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: piiga

← piha pikk →

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.