saari
‘island’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | island |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 5,500 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,796, JR 1,704, KR 153 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
saaren, saari, soaren, saaret, soarella, saareen, saarella, saarelle, soari, saaressa, saarta, saaresta, saarehen, saaree, suarella, soarem, saaruelle, soaret, soaaren, soaressa, soareksella, saaress, soareh, soarta, saaria, saarien, saarelta, saaressani, saareh, saaressain, soaresta, saarin, saarell, suareksella, soarehe, suareen, saarhen, soarien, soarehen, saareksella … and 119 more of 159 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 word | Uses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| island (island's, islands, islands') | 5,208 | 96.1% |
| saari (saari's) | 101 | 1.9% |
| big | 35 | 0.6% |
| swamp (swamp's) | 30 | 0.6% |
| great | 19 | 0.4% |
| suaren | 19 | 0.4% |
| saare (saare's) | 9 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 5,421 |
Example verses
- siihi tuli soari (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
There islands arose. - siitä haukku saaren halli (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
Then the island's guardian barked, - tuuli kanto soaren luokse (SKVR I1 27.) read in context
"Wind bore him near an island." - anni tyttö saaren neity (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Anni girl, island maiden, - tuosta saaria saneli (SKVR I1 35.) read in context
Then he spoke of islands, - päällä saaren terhenisen (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Upon the misty island. - selon soari siunaeltu (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
A serene isle blessed, - sala saari siunattihin (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
A secret island was blessed,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| neito | 1,782 | 482 |
| suuri | 1,552 | 424 |
| suomi | 1,541 | 268 |
| savu | 1,280 | 188 |
| terheninen | 1,268 | 97 |
| nurmi | 955 | 168 |
| niemi | 924 | 151 |
| palaa | 907 | 160 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 177 |
| Nurmen neito | 159 |
| Maailmansyntyruno | 116 |
| Saaren neidot | 92 |
| Annikaisen virsi | 73 |
| Kultaneito | 70 |
| Iso tammi | 69 |
| Meren kosijat | 69 |
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 | 253 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 168 |
| Soikkola | 168 |
| Lempaala | 102 |
| Suistamo | 97 |
| Sakkola | 81 |
| Kaprio | 78 |
| Kontokki | 64 |
| Vuole | 64 |
| Uhtua | 63 |
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 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 4 |
| 1710–1719 | 1 |
| 1720–1729 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 8 |
| 1800–1809 | 1 |
| 1810–1819 | 20 |
| 1820–1829 | 32 |
| 1830–1839 | 175 |
| 1840–1849 | 278 |
| 1850–1859 | 256 |
| 1860–1869 | 25 |
| 1870–1879 | 189 |
| 1880–1889 | 460 |
| 1890–1899 | 313 |
| 1900–1909 | 199 |
| 1910–1919 | 162 |
| 1920–1929 | 66 |
| 1930–1939 | 268 |
| 1940–1949 | 52 |
| 1950–1959 | 48 |
| 1960–1969 | 29 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Volmari Porkka | 239 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 223 |
| A. A. Borenius | 155 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 149 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 130 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,600)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 27., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 35., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 84 a)., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 85., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 242., SKVR I1 244., SKVR I1 246., SKVR I1 251., SKVR I1 251 a)., SKVR I1 253., SKVR I1 262., SKVR I1 265., SKVR I1 271., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 275., SKVR I1 280., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 298 b)., SKVR I1 307., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 409., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 438., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 440., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 450., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 461., SKVR I1 462.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: saar
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.