poiss
‘boys’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | boys |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 20,898 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 234 poems, ERAB 20,664 |
Counts cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; the KR figure counts poems rather than word tokens.
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Attested wordforms
poisid, poisi, poiss, poissi, poisikene, poiste, poisil, poissa, poisikesed, poisile, poistel, poisse, pois, poiskõsõ, poeste, poisikesi, poesi, poistele, poisikeste, poisikeine … and 383 more of 403 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English across the corpus (top senses).
| Sense | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| away | 33,468 |
| boy | 7,834 |
| boys | 7,490 |
| boy's | 6,056 |
| boys' | 1,813 |
Example verses
- valge peaga poisikselle (AES, MT 3, 1 (2))
- kõrsi pietri poisi pärast (AES, MT 3, 2 (6))
- hõbe ei kungla poisile (Kalevipoeg 1)
- arvake poisid agarad (Kalevipoeg 2)
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: poikanen
Counts aggregate every sense and homonym of the written form shown above, as attested across the SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB corpora; the dictionary entry separates senses in detail.