pikk
‘long’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish adjective
| English gloss | long |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 12,250 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 391 poems, 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.
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Attested wordforms
pika, pikka, pikad, pikä, pitka, pikk, pitkad, pikki, pikem, pikkada, pikal, pikast, piku, pitk, pikile, pikalt, pikaliste, pikri, piken, pike, pikista, pitta, pikaks, pikissa, pikken, pikassa, pikemad, pikemaksi, pikemb, pitkem, pikält, pikän, pikilla, pikasta, pikiksi, pikerin, pitkemaksi, pikäl, pikemaks, pikil … and 312 more of 352 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
pikk
- kiviraiumise haamer (kasut peam veskikivi teritamiseks)
- vikati pinnimise vahend
- müürivasar
Idamurre
pikk
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 senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| small | 51.0% |
| long | 35.3% |
| little | 3.9% |
| small's | 2.6% |
| long's | 1.8% |
| tall | 1.8% |
| ones | 1.7% |
| one | 1.5% |
| tiny | 1.1% |
| longer | 0.6% |
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: - pikalt ju hõbedases peeglis (Kalevipoeg Soovituseks) read in context
Long in the silver mirror - pikad piinad peitusella (Kalevipoeg Sissejuhatuseks) read in context
Long sufferings in hiding, - pikkade pidude päevil (Kalevipoeg 1) read in context
During the long feast days!” - pilved pikad ei pidada (Kalevipoeg 2) read in context
Long clouds cannot constrain,
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! | 507 |
| Liiri-lõõri | 225 |
| Liiri, lõõri | 159 |
| Tunnen tuima neiu | 156 |
| Mardilaul | 120 |
| Kaasa kaugel | 115 |
| Laulu võim | 115 |
| Tunnen tuima | 115 |
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 | 385 |
| Kuusalu | 321 |
| Haljala | 296 |
| Paistu | 257 |
| Karksi | 247 |
| Tarvastu | 212 |
| Ambla | 197 |
| Kadrina | 197 |
| Viljandi | 196 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 194 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1780–1789 | 1 |
| 1820–1829 | 3 |
| 1840–1849 | 10 |
| 1850–1859 | 5 |
| 1860–1869 | 100 |
| 1870–1879 | 523 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,925 |
| 1890–1899 | 2,398 |
| 1900–1909 | 512 |
| 1910–1919 | 666 |
| 1920–1929 | 809 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,105 |
| 1940–1949 | 78 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Karl Viljak | 249 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 244 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 215 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 174 |
| Oskar Philipp Kallas | 154 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,649)
- KR: Kalevipoeg Soovituseks, Kalevipoeg Sissejuhatuseks, Kalevipoeg 1, Kalevipoeg 2, Kalevipoeg 3, Kalevipoeg 4, Kalevipoeg 5, Kalevipoeg 6, Kalevipoeg 7, Kalevipoeg 8, Kalevipoeg 9, Kalevipoeg 10, Kalevipoeg 11, Kalevipoeg 12, Kalevipoeg 13, Kalevipoeg 14, Kalevipoeg 15, Kalevipoeg 16, Kalevipoeg 17, Kalevipoeg 18, Kalevipoeg 19, Kalevipoeg 20, KR 47:67, KR 53:168
- 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 287, 15/7, AES MT 287, 20 (a), AES MT 287, 21, AES, MT 88, 31/2, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 102, 26 (3), AES, MT 102, 29 (4), AES, MT 117, 62 (20), AES, MT 130, 32/3 (3), AES, MT 141, 30/1, 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, 111, AES, MT 186, 113/5
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: pitkä
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.