seisma

‘stand’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	stand
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	6,535
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 6,529

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

seisab, seisa, seisis, seisin, seisad, seisamaie, seisan, seista, saista, seisid, seisvad, seisma, seisaks, seisi, seisemaie, saisma, seisate, seisku, seisnud, seisema, seiske, seisavad, seisä, seisama, seisu, seisva, seisamasta, seisame, seisas, seisämaie, seistes, seisamesta, saisema, saismahe, seisamas, seiskem, seisaksin, seismä, seisatele, saisap … and 133 more of 173 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

seisma · seista, seisan 45

1. (inimeste ja loomade kohta:) hrl. jalgadega millelegi toetudes püstiasendis olema
2. (millegi kohta:) jalgadele vm. toetudes püstiasendis olema
3. (üldisemalt:) olema; asuma, asetsema
4. mingis kohas v. seisundis püsima; vastu pidama, säilima

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Idamurre

seisma

püsima säilima

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
stand (stands, stood, standing)	7,092	97.2%
stop (stopped)	56	0.8%
get (getting)	45	0.6%
let (let's)	35	0.5%
send	33	0.5%
stick (stuck)	33	0.5%
step	16	0.2%
tie	15	0.2%
pole	12	0.2%
harness	10	0.1%
Uses counted	7,297

Example verses

et saaks sarved seisamaie (AES, MT 3, 10 (32)) read in context
sie pilt mis seisab seina peal mua emakene (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
The portrait hanging on the wall, my dear mother.
seal ma seisan söömata (AES, MT 36, 3/5) read in context
There I stand unfed,
mis te sääl seisate (AES, MT 43, 77) read in context
Why do you stand there?
mis te sääl seisate siidis puudis (AES, MT 43, 78/9) read in context
Why do you stand there, silken trees?
mis te sääl seisate (AES, MT 43, 91/2) read in context
Why do you stand there?
seisin kui üks seatud sälg (AES, MT 62, 17) read in context
Stood like a set ridge-beam,
saista saani veere pääle (AES, MT 64, 32/3) read in context
Place [yourself] on the sled's edge."

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
sein	4,224	561
serv	3,312	370
ees	1,522	318
seitse	1,342	241
kus	1,231	405
märg	1,187	189
jääma	852	311
taga	578	165

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
Laulu võim	166
Oleks see mees minu!	88
Kust laulud saadud	77
Palve sakstele	72
Oleks	69
Kust laulud	63
Kus istun - seal itken	52
Nutust järv	52

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Paistu	169
Setumaa	132
Haljala	123
Kuusalu	118
Viljandi	110
Tarvastu	108
Kolga-Jaani	104
Ambla	101
Karksi	97
Halliste	96

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	2
1820–1829	7
1830–1839	3
1840–1849	6
1850–1859	1
1860–1869	32
1870–1879	290
1880–1889	876
1890–1899	1,076
1900–1909	271
1910–1919	329
1920–1929	382
1930–1939	446
1940–1949	25

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	116
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	108
Karl Viljak	99
Oskar Philipp Kallas	85
koguja teadmata	71

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,004)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 10 (32), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 43, 77, AES, MT 43, 78/9, AES, MT 43, 91/2, AES, MT 62, 17, AES, MT 64, 32/3, AES, MT 75, 4, AES, MT 75, 15, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 117, 64 (24), AES, MT 171, 27/8 (1), AES, MT 174, 34/5, AES, MT 230, 3/5, ARS 1, 512/6 (3), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 817 (10), ARS 1, 819 (15), ARS 1, 868 (4), ARS 1, 900 (3), E A 4 (3), E A 19/20 (2), E A 34/5 (55, 56), E A 41 (69), E A 51 (94), E A 108 (26), E A 115 (185), E A 119/20, E A 205/7 (1), E A 224/5 (269), E A 250/1 (14), E A 258/60 (22), E A 264/7 (26), E A 284/5 (43), E A 397 (3), E A 409/13 (1), E A 469 (16), E A 521 (9), E A 521/2 (10), E A 554 (14), E A 566 (26), E A 587 (10), E A 626 (12), E A 648/9 (19), E A 667/8 (2), E A 708 (678), E A 722/5 (2), E A 764/5 (6), E A 793/4 (4), E A 830/1 (8), E A 893/4 (17), E A 916/7 (30), E A 962 (2), E A 1047 (17), E A 1053 (1), E A 1061/4, E A 1067 (1000), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 167-168

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: seisoa

← sauna seisoa →

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.