pilvi
‘cloud’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | cloud |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,949 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,103, JR 1,593, KR 253 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.
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Attested wordforms
pilvi, pilven, pilvet, pilvien, pilvistä, pilviä, pilvess, pilvoin, pilivistä, pilvist, pilvoille, pilvin, pilpun, pilevi, pilvis, pilevistä, ploo, pilmoin, pilwistä, pilone, pilivessä, pilwessäki, pilvoista, pilmasen, pilvat, pilvehessä, pilvessäkin, pilvih, pilviks, pilvo, pilvon, pilwillen, bliizeezen, pietulista, pilfwisä, pilien, pilivin, pilosta, pilpitä, pilveelle … and 209 more of 249 attested forms
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 |
|---|---|
| cloud | 46.8% |
| clouds | 33.8% |
| cloud's | 15.1% |
| clouds' | 3.7% |
| cloudy | 0.1% |
| little | 0.1% |
| cloudless | 0.1% |
| pieces | 0.0% |
| split | 0.0% |
Example verses
- pilkaksi pilven lomah (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
- pilkut pilvien lomihi (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Specks in cloud gaps - silput pilvien lomiksi (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Shattered into cloud-gaps. - silput pilvien lomikse (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
Splinters as clouds' gaps. - pilkat pilvien lomaha (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
Speckles among clouds. - pilkat pilvien lomihi (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Specks in cloud-gaps. - pitkien pilvien lomien (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Into long clouds' gaps, - pitkim pilvien lomihi (SKVR I1 17.) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| pää | 1,729 | 613 |
| pudota | 1,664 | 252 |
| puukko | 1,646 | 181 |
| luode | 1,509 | 172 |
| pitää | 1,444 | 326 |
| pimeä | 1,384 | 190 |
| piirre | 1,322 | 105 |
| tiepula | 1,268 | 96 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Poudan sanat | 347 |
| Tulen sanat | 139 |
| Vesitieltä pilviin viety neito | 113 |
| Tulen synty | 88 |
| Kalervo ja Untamo | 74 |
| Kuoharin sanat | 65 |
| Pistoksen synty | 57 |
| Pilvilampi | 56 |
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 | 131 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 121 |
| Suistamo | 83 |
| Soikkola | 70 |
| Kontokki | 63 |
| Uhtua | 62 |
| Repola | 53 |
| Lempaala | 53 |
| Sakkola | 46 |
| Suojärvi | 46 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1670–1679 | 3 |
| 1690–1699 | 3 |
| 1700–1709 | 9 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 13 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 30 |
| 1820–1829 | 74 |
| 1830–1839 | 168 |
| 1840–1849 | 227 |
| 1850–1859 | 137 |
| 1860–1869 | 36 |
| 1870–1879 | 127 |
| 1880–1889 | 484 |
| 1890–1899 | 305 |
| 1900–1909 | 223 |
| 1910–1919 | 336 |
| 1920–1929 | 51 |
| 1930–1939 | 377 |
| 1940–1949 | 62 |
| 1950–1959 | 48 |
| 1960–1969 | 53 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 293 |
| Volmari Porkka | 116 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 114 |
| A. A. Borenius | 90 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 90 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,780)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 163., SKVR I1 163 b)., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 203., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 245., SKVR I1 253 a)., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 429., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 438., SKVR I1 443., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 454., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 477., SKVR I1 488., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 554., SKVR I1 555., SKVR I1 557., SKVR I1 562., SKVR I1 565., SKVR I1 566., SKVR I1 571., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I1 687., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpalaulanta] 1., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpalaulanta] 2., SKVR I1 erill. [Kojosen poika] 1., SKVR I1 erill. [Kojosen poika] 2., SKVR I1 erill. [Kojosen poika] 3., SKVR I1 erill. [Kojosen poika] 5., SKVR I1 erill. [Kojosen poika] 3.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: pilv
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.