puu
‘tree’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | tree |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 23,608 |
| By corpus | SKVR 9,907, JR 6,804, KR 508 poems, ERAB 6,897 |
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
puu, puuta, puita, puun, puida, puut, puud, puuhun, puussa, puusta, puista, puid, puille, puuda, puus, puude, puitani, puust, pu, puile, puul, puilla, puulla, puihin, puulle, puulta, puist, puissa, puitten, puult, puusse, puula, puide, puule, puuksi, puiden, puuli, puuss, puest, puutid … and 175 more of 215 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
puu · puie
- 1. pikaealine kõrgema tüvega puittaim
- 2. puu (1. täh.) tüveosa ja/v. jämedad oksad kütmiseks parajateks tükkideks lõigatuna, küttepuud, halud
- 3. teivas, kaigas, latt, palk vms. esemena v. eseme osana (sagedamini esineb liitsõna järelosas)
- 4. tulenemist, arengut kajastav skeem
EMS
puu
- puittaim
- puit; puitmaterjal
- puu tükkideks lõigatuna, küttepuud, halud
- teivas, latt vms esemena või selle osana
puu-
- puu-
Idamurre
puu
Seto
puu
- livvast `sü̬ ü̬ di, `kahv́lit olõ õs olõmahkiʔ Se
Moistatuste
puu
- ka: põu
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 · Mõistatuste murdesõnad
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 |
|---|---|---|
| tree (trees, tree's, trees') | 20,479 | 77.2% |
| wood (woods, wood's) | 4,816 | 18.1% |
| wooden | 925 | 3.5% |
| touch (touched) | 58 | 0.2% |
| firewood | 52 | 0.2% |
| lack | 50 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 26,538 |
Example verses
- airom puurim puinä vingu (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
- mistä kanteleh puut on saaha (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
"Where's wood for the harp?" - airon puurin puinä vingu (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
- puiten puut jaellen heinät (SKVR I1 12.) read in context
Chopping wood, mowing hay, - ma ei murra muida puida (AES, MT 3, 8 (24)) read in context
I won't break common trees, - muud puud muretsemaie (AES, MT 3, 8 (26)) read in context
Other trees to fret. - maasta rohto puusta lehte (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
Nor leaves from trees, - liigub tuulest mõni puuke (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Or a sapling sway in the wind?"
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 |
|---|---|---|
| purra | 8,136 | 1,371 |
| juuri | 4,175 | 847 |
| pujotella | 3,850 | 428 |
| raiuma | 2,321 | 539 |
| maa | 2,243 | 1,558 |
| luulla | 2,216 | 484 |
| kaatua | 1,956 | 418 |
| puhas | 1,796 | 393 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Käärmeen sanat | 709 |
| Hiiri metsähän menevi | 402 |
| Puun sanat | 353 |
| Käärmeen synty | 317 |
| Ampiaisen lumous | 179 |
| Ihmemaa | 166 |
| Metsast mehele | 149 |
| Puun synty | 145 |
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 | 416 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 340 |
| Suistamo | 280 |
| Setumaa | 262 |
| Lempaala | 256 |
| Soikkola | 212 |
| Kuusalu | 197 |
| Ilomantsi | 184 |
| Haljala | 179 |
| Vuole | 150 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1640–1649 | 1 |
| 1650–1659 | 3 |
| 1690–1699 | 12 |
| 1700–1709 | 17 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1770–1779 | 10 |
| 1780–1789 | 53 |
| 1800–1809 | 13 |
| 1810–1819 | 89 |
| 1820–1829 | 147 |
| 1830–1839 | 437 |
| 1840–1849 | 673 |
| 1850–1859 | 657 |
| 1860–1869 | 123 |
| 1870–1879 | 581 |
| 1880–1889 | 2,439 |
| 1890–1899 | 2,486 |
| 1900–1909 | 1,139 |
| 1910–1919 | 1,578 |
| 1920–1929 | 813 |
| 1930–1939 | 2,374 |
| 1940–1949 | 434 |
| 1950–1959 | 317 |
| 1960–1969 | 391 |
| 1970–1979 | 2 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 740 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 414 |
| Volmari Porkka | 273 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 272 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 255 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 15,110)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 12., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 65., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 88 a)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 188., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 264., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 286., SKVR I1 287., SKVR I1 288., SKVR I1 293., SKVR I1 294., SKVR I1 295., SKVR I1 302., SKVR I1 305., SKVR I1 309., SKVR I1 310., SKVR I1 313., SKVR I1 315., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 335., SKVR I1 336., SKVR I1 337., SKVR I1 338., SKVR I1 339., SKVR I1 339 a)., SKVR I1 340., SKVR I1 340 a)., SKVR I1 341., SKVR I1 342., SKVR I1 343., SKVR I1 344., SKVR I1 345.
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.