pitkä

‘long’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective

English gloss	long
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	9,223
By corpus	SKVR 4,853, JR 4,370, KR 439 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

pitkä, pitkän, pitkät, pitkiä, pitkää, pitkii, pitkällä, pitkään, pitkäksi, pitkinä, pitkillä, pitkähän, pitkästä, pitkille, pitkälle, pitkässä, pitkänä, pitkältä, pitkien, pitkim, pitkeä, pitkälä, pitkäm, pitkiltä, pitkinnä, pitkäks, pitke, pitkiksi, pitkähä, pitken, pitkissä, pisimmät, pitkälleen, pitkiin, pitkistä, pitkäll, pitkälläis, pitkill, pitkäl, pitkie … and 112 more of 152 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EMS

pitkä

aeglaselt, aegamööda

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
long (longer, long's, longest)	14,941	96.5%
tall (taller, tallest)	437	2.8%
along	45	0.3%
far	31	0.2%
length	31	0.2%
Uses counted	15,477

Example verses

pohjom pitkähä perähä (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
To distant Pohjola's end
pahan pitkään perään (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Long after evil,
pitkien pilvien lomien (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Into long clouds' gaps,
pohjon pitkähi perähi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
To North's far depths,
pohjan pitkähä lahtehe (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
To Pohjola’s long bay.
pohjan pitkähän perähän (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
To North's distant end,
pitkän unen maattuansa (SKVR I1 48.) read in context
After lying in a long sleep.
syltä pitkä kahta paksu (SKVR I1 53.) read in context
Long-waisted, twice as thick,

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
pellava	9,524	996
matka	4,098	692
pohja	2,325	432
pino	2,241	308
piippu	2,086	275
perä	1,903	436
paks	1,381	273
piha	1,277	291

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
Laskiaishuuto	434
Käärmeen sanat	152
Iso tammi	144
Käärmeen synty	141
Lohikäärme ja neito	91
Revon valitus	90
Soudan, soudan Sorolaan, tätilään - täti lypsää, ukko juo	86
Suka mereen	78

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	348
Suistamo	176
Vuokkiniemi	161
Lempaala	161
Alatornio	161
Soikkola	149
Sakkola	114
Vuole	106
Ilomantsi	100
Rautu	81

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	6
1700–1709	22
1730–1739	3
1750–1759	4
1760–1769	3
1780–1789	31
1800–1809	8
1810–1819	61
1820–1829	113
1830–1839	315
1840–1849	537
1850–1859	493
1860–1869	47
1870–1879	140
1880–1889	769
1890–1899	606
1900–1909	492
1910–1919	766
1920–1929	345
1930–1939	1,436
1940–1949	259
1950–1959	407
1960–1969	383
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	588
Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys	273
Volmari Porkka	204
D. E. D. Europaeus	185
Kaarle Krohn	178

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,260)

SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 48., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 118., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 133., SKVR I1 135., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 255., SKVR I1 289., SKVR I1 372., SKVR I1 373., SKVR I1 375., SKVR I1 404., SKVR I1 414., SKVR I1 415., SKVR I1 419., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 492., SKVR I1 496., SKVR I1 508., SKVR I1 509., SKVR I1 523., SKVR I1 584., SKVR I1 623., SKVR I1 624., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 10., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 3.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: pikk

← pistää pitää →

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.