pikk

‘long’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective

English gloss	long
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	11,859
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 11,859

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

pika, pikka, pikad, pikä, pitka, pikk, pikkä, pitkad, pikem, pikkada, pikal, pikast, pikkad, pitk, pikale, pikile, pikke, pikalt, pikäd, pikas, pikasse, pike, pikäs, pikaks, pikassa, pikäle, pikält, pikän, pikasta, pitkal, pitkas, pikked, pitkada, pitkemaksi, pikada, pikäl, pitkast, pikäst, pikil, pikisse … and 142 more of 182 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

pikk · adj lgv bot

1. ruumiliselt (suhteliselt) suure pikkuse v. ulatusega
2. ajaliselt (suhteliselt) kaua kestev v. kestnud
3. esineb mitmesugustes (näoilmega seotud) pettumist, ebaõnnestumist vms. esile toovates väljendites

EMS

pikk

ruumiliselt suure pikkuse või ulatusega
teat pikkusega
piklik (hrl kartulisordist)
kaua kestev; aeglaselt mööduv

(+3)

pikk

kiviraiumise haamer (kasut peam veskikivi teritamiseks)
vikati pinnimise vahend
müürivasar

Idamurre

pikk

kiviraiumise haamer

Seto

piḱk

(ruumiliselt) pikk piḱäp‿pińgiʔ, nu̬ u̬ t‿`tahtsõk‿ka liivaga `mõskmist
(ajaliselt)

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
long (long's, longer)	16,313	93.5%
tall (taller, tallest)	868	5.0%
length	95	0.5%
along	94	0.5%
lengthwise	53	0.3%
Uses counted	17,447

Example verses

vare vaatis pika noka (AES, MT 3, 2 (6)) read in context
Crow looked, long-beaked one,
tuimal neiul tukka pikka (AES, MT 3, 7 (21)) read in context
On the stern maiden, long hair,
väljade pikad lehvijad (AES, MT 3, 16) read in context
Long banners of the fields
pikad lakad laiad pärjad (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Tall headdresses, wide wreaths:
pika põllupiendra otsa (AES, MT 3, 24) read in context
At the end of a long field border.
kes see kiskub pierud pikkad (AES, MT 5, 4) read in context
Who pulls the long plow handles,
pikä põllupendra pääle (AES, MT 34, 6/8) read in context
On the long field’s edge.
peremiis oll pikän puun (AES, MT 34, 8) read in context
The master had a long timber,

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
põld	4,746	820
pink	3,433	522
peenar	2,967	377
pilliroog	2,405	357
püks	2,134	342
lina	1,623	350
pilv	1,597	277
põllupeenar	1,426	206

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
Liiri-lõõri!	511
Liiri-lõõri	225
Liiri, lõõri	162
Tunnen tuima neiu	160
Kaasa kaugel	133
Mardilaul	126
Tunnen tuima	117
Kadrilaul	109

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	392
Kuusalu	358
Haljala	288
Paistu	274
Karksi	262
Kolga-Jaani	220
Tarvastu	218
Viljandi	216
Halliste	194
Ambla	187

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	2
1840–1849	8
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	72
1870–1879	542
1880–1889	1,932
1890–1899	2,395
1900–1909	518
1910–1919	663
1920–1929	800
1930–1939	1,121
1940–1949	84

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	251
Karl Viljak	240
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	208
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	168
Oskar Philipp Kallas	150

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,664)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (6), AES, MT 3, 7 (21), AES, MT 3, 16, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 3, 24, AES, MT 5, 4, AES, MT 34, 6/8, AES, MT 34, 8, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 19 (22), AES, MT 40, 30 (41), AES, MT 43, 64, AES, MT 43, 68, AES, MT 49, 9/10 (1), AES, MT 60, 35/6 (24), AES, MT 63, 1/2, AES, MT 64, 32/3, AES, MT 66, 8/10, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 70, 35, AES MT 287, 15/7, AES MT 287, 20 (a), AES MT 287, 21, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 102, 26 (3), AES, MT 102, 29 (4), AES, MT 117, 62 (20), AES, MT 117, 66 (27), AES, MT 130, 32/3 (3), AES, MT 141, 30/1, AES, MT 141, 36/7, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 154, 5, AES, MT 171, 27/8 (1), AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 183, 17/8, AES, MT 186, 113/5, AES, MT 187, 38, AES, MT 188, 54/5 (2), AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 205, 6/7, AES, MT 205, 36, AES MT 206, 53/4, AES MT 208, 16, AES MT 208, 24/7, AES MT 210, 15/20, AES, MT 216, 17, AES, MT 216, 17, AES, MT 219, 18, AES, MT 219, 39/40, AES, MT 222, 30/1, AES, MT 230, 6/7, AES, MT 230, 13/4, AES, MT 236, 39, AES, MT 240, 65, AES, MT 262, 27, AES, MT 262, 32/3, AES, MT 266, 7/9, AES, MT 282, 25, AES, MT 286, 16

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: pitkä

← piika pilvi →

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.