pistää

‘put’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	put
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	8,222
By corpus	SKVR 5,073, JR 3,149, KR 254 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

pistä, pistän, pisti, pistät, pistin, pistit, pistää, pist, pistettiin, pistämäni, pistämästä, pistämään, pistetä, pistämässä, pistäs, pistetään, pistäi, pistihen, pisteli, pistettihin, pistihe, pistäm, pistii, pistämähän, pistettii, pistipä, pistämää, pistetty, pistäköön, pistämäst, pistäin, pistänyt, pistäp, pistäy, pistämättä, pistäppäs, pistäyn, pistäis, pistäkää, pistäköö … and 225 more of 265 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
put (puts, putting)	2,292	31.7%
stick (stuck, sticking, sticks)	1,418	19.6%
thrust (thrusts, thrusting)	1,285	17.8%
stab (stabbed, stabbing, stabs)	923	12.8%
sting (stung, stinging, stings)	475	6.6%
poke (poked, poking, pokes)	351	4.9%
prick (pricked, pricking, pricks)	121	1.7%
pierce (pierced, piercing, pierces)	82	1.1%
place (placed, placing)	75	1.0%
plant (planted)	44	0.6%
Uses counted	7,236

Example verses

pienet ilmat pistämäni (SKVR I1 40.) read in context
"The small skies I fashioned."
pisti polvesa pesäkse (SKVR I1 43.) read in context
Made his knee a nest.
siitä pisti pistoksilla (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Then thrust with jabs,
pistih pikku pirttiseheh (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
She slipped into the small cottage,
ilmam pieltä pistämässä (SKVR I1 85.) read in context
pisti miestä syömen kautti (SKVR I1 88 a).) read in context
Stabbed the man through the heart,
ilmam pieltä pistämässä (SKVR I1 89.) read in context
pisti miestä suömen kautti (SKVR I1 92.) 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
pisto	11,870	1,000
piikki	4,540	441
jos	3,447	733
pistos	2,015	194
kerta	1,538	344
neula	1,172	179
kaksi	895	293
yksin	785	141

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
Ampiaisen lumous	351
Pistos	289
Käärmeen sanat	152
Hiiri metsähän menevi	133
Pistoksen synty	103
Käärmeen pureman historiola	63
Käärmeen synty	63
Verensulku	59

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	155
Suistamo	102
Lempaala	77
Ilomantsi	72
Vuokkiniemi	64
Kitee	60
Soikkola	57
Tyrvää	50
Suomussalmi	43
Impilahti	40

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	6
1700–1709	9
1730–1739	1
1760–1769	1
1770–1779	4
1780–1789	31
1800–1809	4
1810–1819	54
1820–1829	99
1830–1839	191
1840–1849	251
1850–1859	208
1860–1869	32
1870–1879	89
1880–1889	688
1890–1899	417
1900–1909	300
1910–1919	478
1920–1929	238
1930–1939	747
1940–1949	143
1950–1959	162
1960–1969	144
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	344
Kaarle Krohn	243
Frans Kärki	120
Volmari Porkka	87
T. E. Okkola	82

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,318)

SKVR: SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 85., SKVR I1 88 a)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 139., SKVR I1 140., SKVR I1 141., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 151., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 156 b)., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 162., SKVR I1 163., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 163 b)., SKVR I1 164., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 175., SKVR I1 181., SKVR I1 182., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 203., SKVR I1 255., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 286., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 315., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 387., SKVR I1 403., SKVR I1 437., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 459., SKVR I1 468., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 520., SKVR I1 607.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: pistma

← pilvi 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. 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.