rikas

‘rich’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish adjective

English gloss	rich
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Estonian and Finnish
Total occurrences	7,520
By corpus	SKVR 1,092, JR 1,305, KR 125 poems, ERAB 5,123

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

rikas, rikka, rikast, rikaste, rikkad, rikassõ, rikasta, rikkaan, rikkas, rikkahan, rikasõ, rikkaat, rikkal, rikkahille, rikat, rikasõõ, rikkahalle, rikkale, rikkaaks, rikkaks, rikkahia, rikkast, rikkahaksi, rikkaa, rikastel, rikkahat, rika, rikkaille, rikkaasta, rikkahammat, rikkaita, rikasse, rikkaalle, rikkaelle, rikazõ, rikkaaksi, riika, rikaista, rikkasse, rikaz … and 196 more of 236 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

rikas · rikka 20

1. palju varandust omav, varakas; ant. vaene
2. varakas inimene; ant. vaene
3. midagi hrl. heaks, kasulikuks, väärtuslikuks peetavat rohkelt sisaldav v. omav; liitsõna järelosana väljendab liitsõna esikomponendiga määratletu rohkust
4. omadustelt hea, väärtusi sisaldav v. omav, väärtuslik

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Idamurre

rikas

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Idamurde sõnastik, 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
rich (rich's, richer, richest)	7,208	87.5%
wealth	255	3.1%
richness	207	2.5%
riches	82	1.0%
spirit	71	0.9%
treasure	63	0.8%
man	45	0.5%
pest	37	0.4%
wealthy	33	0.4%
creature	28	0.3%
Uses counted	8,239

Example verses

seizataksi rikkazilla (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
Stopped at wealthy homes.
veibigo rikat ulosse (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Brought knives outside
rivahutti rikkasehe (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
Dressed in rich garments,
otti rikat yskähänsä (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Took trash in her apron,
rikas mind ütles riisse (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
The rich bid me to riches,
ärä sas võtku rikast naist (AES, MT 40, 28/9 (39)) read in context
Do not take a rich wife,
siis kutsu rikkad ristikselle (AES, MT 43, 70/1) read in context
Then summon the rich to the high bench,
kukk läks rikka reia alla (AES, MT 49, 19 (8)) read in context
Rooster went under the rich plowshare.

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
rakas	2,412	354
riihi	1,980	288
pelto	1,873	420
rind	1,540	307
piha	1,516	303
raha	1,409	353
riia	1,294	274
köyhä	1,133	189

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
Rikka silmässä	283
Kitse krapp	121
Laulu võim	107
Rikas hüüab reeks	84
Kust laulud saadud	80
Siikasen synty	70
Kust laulud	65
Rikas härra ja vaene mees	58

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	180
Setumaa	167
Kuusalu	121
Haljala	106
Vuokkiniemi	86
Soikkola	72
Lempaala	72
Kolga-Jaani	62
Vändra	60
Karksi	58

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	1
1690–1699	3
1700–1709	4
1720–1729	1
1750–1759	1
1760–1769	2
1780–1789	1
1800–1809	2
1810–1819	17
1820–1829	31
1830–1839	99
1840–1849	215
1850–1859	193
1860–1869	46
1870–1879	227
1880–1889	868
1890–1899	922
1900–1909	309
1910–1919	329
1920–1929	287
1930–1939	694
1940–1949	79
1950–1959	74
1960–1969	241
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	206
Kaarle Krohn	139
Leea Virtanen	111
Volmari Porkka	94
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	74

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,822)

SKVR: SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 65., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 94., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 132., SKVR I1 621., SKVR I1 622 a)., SKVR I1 634., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I2 701., SKVR I2 712., SKVR I2 724., SKVR I2 758., SKVR I2 767., SKVR I2 774., SKVR I2 781., SKVR I2 794., SKVR I2 802., SKVR I2 805., SKVR I2 816., SKVR I2 820., SKVR I2 1098., SKVR I2 1103., SKVR I2 1153., SKVR I3 1286., SKVR I3 1655., SKVR I3 1905., SKVR I3 1906., SKVR I3 1907., SKVR I3 1908., SKVR I3 1908 a)., SKVR I3 1909., SKVR I3 1912., SKVR I3 1913., SKVR I3 1979., SKVR I3 1979 a)., SKVR I3 1992., SKVR I3 1992 a)., SKVR I4 184.

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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.