seisoa

‘stand’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	stand
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	6,954
By corpus	SKVR 4,462, JR 2,235, KR 256 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.

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Attested wordforms

seiso, seisoi, seison, seistä, seisata, seisatu, seisota, seissa, seizo, seisovat, seisos, seisov, seisomah, seisotella, seisotteli, seisominen, sejso, seisottele, seisovalle, seisatai, seisoalle, seisomaha, seisova, seisuohon, seisub, seslähää, seisatuin, seiskoon, seisokkoa, seisomasta, seisottihin, seännyn, seijuma, seisatain, seisojille, seisotu, seizou, stoo, seisallansa, seisatakse … and 474 more of 514 attested forms

Example verses

seisattih on topillahe (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
Stopped at threshold.
sempi tiellä seisuohon (SKVR I1 40.) read in context
"Let the better stand his ground,
seisatakse rikoillansa (SKVR I1 44.) read in context
seiso keseä (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
Stood through summer,
seiso n keseä (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
Stood half a summer,
seiso seittsemen keseä (SKVR I1 58.) read in context
seiso seittsemen keseä (SKVR I1 58 a).) read in context
seiso seittsemen keseä (SKVR I1 61.) read in context

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
seinä	11,804	1,294
niinkuin	9,642	1,144
veri	8,088	1,274
helvetti	2,587	345
miekka	1,635	317
kuin	1,356	421
tyyni	1,354	181
seppä	1,058	248

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
Verensulku	946
Raudan sanat	162
Raudan synty	143
Kilpalaulanta	54
Lemmennostoloitsut	54
Teräksestä kengät panetellulle	49
Käärmeen pidätys ja lumous	46
Polvenhaava	45

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	157
Suistamo	92
Vuokkiniemi	86
Soikkola	74
Lempaala	64
Ilomantsi	64
Vuole	55
Laihia	48
Nurmes	39
Salmi	38

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	3
1700–1709	3
1750–1759	1
1780–1789	8
1800–1809	2
1810–1819	32
1820–1829	53
1830–1839	164
1840–1849	216
1850–1859	164
1860–1869	26
1870–1879	76
1880–1889	582
1890–1899	398
1900–1909	264
1910–1919	327
1920–1929	112
1930–1939	578
1940–1949	154
1950–1959	85
1960–1969	101

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	241
Kaarle Krohn	169
Volmari Porkka	109
Samuli Paulaharju	87
D. E. D. Europaeus	77

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,360)

SKVR: SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 111., SKVR I1 119., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 159., SKVR I1 163., SKVR I1 164., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 175., SKVR I1 179., SKVR I1 179 a)., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 184., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 186., SKVR I1 187., SKVR I1 188., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 193., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 199., SKVR I1 259., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 297., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 509., SKVR I1 520.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: seisma

← seisma selg →

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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.