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puu

‘tree’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glosstree
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences23,608
By corpusSKVR 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

(+2)

EMS

puu

(+4)

puu-

Idamurre

puu

Seto

puu

Moistatuste

puu

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 wordUsesShare
tree (trees, tree's, trees')20,47977.2%
wood (woods, wood's)4,81618.1%
wooden9253.5%
touch (touched)580.2%
firewood520.2%
lack500.2%
Uses counted26,538

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
purra8,1361,371
juuri4,175847
pujotella3,850428
raiuma2,321539
maa2,2431,558
luulla2,216484
kaatua1,956418
puhas1,796393

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 typePoems
Käärmeen sanat709
Hiiri metsähän menevi402
Puun sanat353
Käärmeen synty317
Ampiaisen lumous179
Ihmemaa166
Metsast mehele149
Puun synty145

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

PlacePoems
Narvusi416
Vuokkiniemi340
Suistamo280
Setumaa262
Lempaala256
Soikkola212
Kuusalu197
Ilomantsi184
Haljala179
Vuole150

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1640–16491
1650–16593
1690–169912
1700–170917
1730–17391
1750–17591
1760–17693
1770–177910
1780–178953
1800–180913
1810–181989
1820–1829147
1830–1839437
1840–1849673
1850–1859657
1860–1869123
1870–1879581
1880–18892,439
1890–18992,486
1900–19091,139
1910–19191,578
1920–1929813
1930–19392,374
1940–1949434
1950–1959317
1960–1969391
1970–19792

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot740
Kaarle Krohn414
Volmari Porkka273
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari272
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori255
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 15,110)
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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.