seppä
‘smith’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | smith |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 6,329 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,460, JR 1,869, KR 135 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
seppä, sepän, sepälle, seppy, seppien, sepyt, sepältä, sepät, seppänä, seppiin, sepponen, seppyeen, sepäll, seppyen, seppää, seppyeni, seppiä, sepällä, sepäksi, seppyvein, seppälää, seppii, seppyein, seppäin, sepält, seppäseni, seppö, seppueni, säppä, seppäh, sepällen, seppyelle, sepille, seppänen, seppiem, sepposeni, seppäleäne, seppään, sepete, seppän … and 85 more of 125 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 |
|---|---|---|
| smith (smith's, smiths, smiths') | 9,570 | 85.0% |
| blacksmith (blacksmith's, blacksmiths, blacksmiths') | 1,517 | 13.5% |
| seppo | 47 | 0.4% |
| smithy (smithy's) | 42 | 0.4% |
| seppä | 24 | 0.2% |
| forge (forged) | 16 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 11,262 |
Example verses
- oi sie seppä ilmolline (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
- jopa seppä soitteloupi (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
Then the smith played, - astu se sepän pajahan (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Stepped to the smithy: - astuuvi sepän pajahi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
- se oli seppä ilmolline (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
- seppä syöpi selvän leivän (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"The smith eats the good bread," - juoks on seppäläm pajaha (SKVR I1 24.) read in context
- mäni sepponen pajahan (SKVR I1 30 a).) read in context
The smith went to forge,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| paja | 8,038 | 908 |
| selvä | 4,134 | 500 |
| ilmarinen | 2,343 | 326 |
| takoa | 1,920 | 327 |
| emäntä | 1,724 | 400 |
| seitsemäs | 1,110 | 161 |
| seistä | 1,074 | 132 |
| seisoa | 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 |
|---|---|
| Kanteleen synty | 180 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 162 |
| Kultaneito | 144 |
| Kukon ja kanan saunamatka | 141 |
| Laivaretki | 137 |
| En ole opissa ollut | 132 |
| Kalevanpojan kosto | 125 |
| Raudan synty | 121 |
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 | 262 |
| Soikkola | 144 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 129 |
| Lempaala | 122 |
| Vuole | 94 |
| Suistamo | 78 |
| Sakkola | 70 |
| Kaprio | 61 |
| Ilomantsi | 51 |
| Suojärvi | 49 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 3 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 20 |
| 1800–1809 | 4 |
| 1810–1819 | 28 |
| 1820–1829 | 55 |
| 1830–1839 | 145 |
| 1840–1849 | 268 |
| 1850–1859 | 219 |
| 1860–1869 | 26 |
| 1870–1879 | 152 |
| 1880–1889 | 554 |
| 1890–1899 | 407 |
| 1900–1909 | 274 |
| 1910–1919 | 324 |
| 1920–1929 | 98 |
| 1930–1939 | 361 |
| 1940–1949 | 85 |
| 1950–1959 | 66 |
| 1960–1969 | 47 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Volmari Porkka | 247 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 221 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 142 |
| A. A. Borenius | 134 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 113 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,153)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 36., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 136., SKVR I1 141., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 266., SKVR I1 269., SKVR I1 271., SKVR I1 275., SKVR I1 361., SKVR I1 361 a)., SKVR I1 361 b)., SKVR I1 384., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 436., SKVR I1 437., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 443., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 454., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 458., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 486., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 491 a)., SKVR I1 507., SKVR I1 509., SKVR I1 513.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: sepp
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.