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pyhä

‘holy’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective

English glossholy
Part of speechadjective
LanguageFinnish
Total occurrences6,024
By corpusSKVR 3,492, JR 2,532, KR 225 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

pyhä, pyhän, pyhät, pyhänä, pyhinä, pyhää, pyhästä, puhät, pyhällä, pyhhäin, pyhi, pyhälle, pyhäin, pyhäine, puhän, pyhään, pyhässä, pyheä, pyh, pyhältä, pyhinnä, pyhiä, pyhänen, pyhäksi, pyhiksi, pyhillä, pyhille, pyhännä, pyhistä, pyhäl, pyhien, pyhe, pyhhää, pyhäs, pyhet, pyhen, pyhält, pyhhäine, pyhänn, pyhähän … and 83 more of 123 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 wordUsesShare
holy (holy's, holiest, holies')5,70495.7%
day (days, day's)1192.0%
sacred (sacred's)1182.0%
saint (saints', saints)601.0%
place (places)130.2%
holiday (holidays, holiday's)120.2%
sanctify110.2%
clean (cleaned)90.2%
pyhän70.1%
wipe70.1%
Uses counted5,958

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
henki3,155478
pyörre2,252219
yrjö1,997199
piika1,966401
pelto1,955406
virta1,897273
perkele1,581215
pietari1,575229

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
Verensulku168
Käärmeen pidätys ja lumous158
Tulen sanat98
Kilpalaulanta78
Tulen synty70
Rikka silmässä62
Käärmeen sanat59
Raudan sanat55

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Suistamo233
Vuokkiniemi188
Narvusi186
Suojärvi157
Salmi153
Soikkola137
Ilomantsi89
Kontokki85
Uhtua74
Repola65

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1610–16191
1650–16592
1690–169915
1700–17099
1710–17191
1730–17392
1740–17491
1750–17599
1760–17691
1770–17791
1780–178913
1800–18098
1810–181938
1820–182961
1830–1839183
1840–1849239
1850–1859209
1860–186933
1870–1879116
1880–1889666
1890–1899415
1900–1909360
1910–1919382
1920–1929126
1930–1939846
1940–1949248
1950–1959127
1960–1969147
1970–19791

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot298
Kaarle Krohn191
Volmari Porkka127
D. E. D. Europaeus104
Väinö Salminen102
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,272)

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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.