sanoa
‘say’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | say |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 17,320 |
| By corpus | SKVR 9,560, JR 7,759, KR 518 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
sano, sanoi, sanoo, sanon, sanoa, sannoo, sanoin, sanovi, sanoopi, sanou, sanovat, saoi, sanoit, sannoi, sanoisin, sanos, sanoisi, sanottu, sanottiin, sanot, sanowi, sanonut, sanoot, sanoivat, sanois, sanotaan, san, sanopi, sanova, sanopa, sanosin, sanuo, sanovan, sanottihin, sanotah, sanottii, sanoen, sanu, sanont, sanonen … and 220 more of 260 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 |
|---|---|---|
| say (said, says, saying, said's) | 19,993 | 93.8% |
| word (words, words', word's) | 652 | 3.1% |
| tell (tells, telling) | 181 | 0.8% |
| speak (spoke, speaks, speaking, spoken) | 138 | 0.6% |
| call (called, calls) | 70 | 0.3% |
| get (got) | 63 | 0.3% |
| order (ordered) | 26 | 0.1% |
| indeed | 25 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 21,313 |
Example verses
- niin sano pohjan poika (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Thus spoke the Northland lad: - sano nuori jougahaini (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
- anni väinöllä sanovi (SKVR I1 3.) read in context
- sanoin virkki noim pagazi (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Spoke with biting words: - sanoin virkki noin pagazi (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
With words spoke, thus said: - sanoin virkki noim pagazi (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
Spoke words, cast a curse: - ei sanou itku lapsen itku (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
"No," she says, "not child's weep, - sano nuori joukahainen (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Said young Joukahainen:
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 |
|---|---|---|
| sana | 5,578 | 1,240 |
| väinämöinen | 3,841 | 952 |
| vanha | 3,135 | 1,010 |
| lemminkäinen | 1,554 | 351 |
| ilta | 1,483 | 391 |
| joukahainen | 1,342 | 251 |
| emo | 1,260 | 652 |
| nainen | 1,257 | 381 |
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 | 257 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 215 |
| Käärmeen pureman historiola | 185 |
| Oljamissa käynti | 149 |
| Käärmeen synty | 148 |
| Kilpalaulanta | 147 |
| Laivaretki | 124 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 122 |
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 | 577 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 532 |
| Soikkola | 425 |
| Lempaala | 281 |
| Suistamo | 233 |
| Ilomantsi | 227 |
| Kaprio | 206 |
| Vuole | 198 |
| Sakkola | 162 |
| Uhtua | 158 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1560–1569 | 1 |
| 1650–1659 | 2 |
| 1690–1699 | 23 |
| 1700–1709 | 18 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 4 |
| 1760–1769 | 5 |
| 1770–1779 | 25 |
| 1780–1789 | 28 |
| 1800–1809 | 10 |
| 1810–1819 | 65 |
| 1820–1829 | 161 |
| 1830–1839 | 651 |
| 1840–1849 | 815 |
| 1850–1859 | 859 |
| 1860–1869 | 126 |
| 1870–1879 | 438 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,406 |
| 1890–1899 | 923 |
| 1900–1909 | 796 |
| 1910–1919 | 689 |
| 1920–1929 | 171 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,455 |
| 1940–1949 | 379 |
| 1950–1959 | 363 |
| 1960–1969 | 301 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 907 |
| Volmari Porkka | 572 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 331 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 324 |
| A. A. Borenius | 321 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,735)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 3., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 5., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 35., SKVR I1 37., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 57., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 59., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 67., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 75., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 81., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 a)., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 104.
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.