siga

‘pig’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	pig
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	6,303
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 6,303

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

siga, sea, sead, tsiga, sigade, seana, seale, sigu, sigadele, sigadelle, tsika, sikakene, seaks, siug, siuga, sigadel, sikal, tsiale, sigada, sikuke, siuge, seask, siugi, sigadega, siguje, sigä, siugud, seija, sigule, sigadeksi, sigasid, tsiast, seagi, sigatele, sigadelegi, sigadõlõ, sigate, sigude, sikah, siusses … and 32 more of 72 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

siga · sea 26

1. keskmise suurusega sõraline imetaja (Sus);
2. esineb liitsõna järelosana mitmetes muudes loomanimetustes; näit.
3. häbematu, jultunud, alatu inimene (hrl. mees); lontrus, lurjus (ka sõimusõnana)
4. viislehega sarnanev kaardimäng, kus kaotajaks jääb see, kellele jääb kätte poti üheksa

Idamurre

siga

siga

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
pig (pigs, pig's, pigs')	5,448	94.7%
set	58	1.0%
piglet (piglets)	53	0.9%
swine (swine's)	41	0.7%
sow	35	0.6%
goat	24	0.4%
arrange	16	0.3%
inside	16	0.3%
little	15	0.3%
put	15	0.3%
Uses counted	5,755

Example verses

seal on sead sies maganud (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
There pigs have slept inside,
siga aga sõtkus sepikuid (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
A sow churned mud-pits,
sead suure süödi peale (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Pigs onto the big feeding trough,
külä sigadõlõ sigidust (AES, MT 28, 7/9) read in context
The village for pigs, their herding,
siga selle kiigu tennu (AES, MT 33, 15) read in context
The pig made that swing... / The pig has crafted that rocking device...
siga sii nägi sitaaugu (AES, MT 70, 24) read in context
a pig here saw a dung-pit,
siga sittus sõõla (AES, MT 70, 27) read in context
sead teil sirakaks sigigu (AES, MT 84, 3/7) read in context
Pigs multiply into a herd,

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
seitse	1,708	285
sile	1,218	153
põrsas	1,164	170
sööma	1,131	325
söötma	1,091	187
sinilill	1,062	154
sõrg	940	106
sigima	832	89

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
Imed	176
Lauliku sõim	122
Parmu matus	105
Mardilaul	102
Ema haual	90
Halb laulik	88
Liiri-lõõri!	82
Hollandi sulane	79

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	140
Karksi	119
Haljala	109
Paistu	104
Tarvastu	102
Halliste	100
Kuusalu	94
Ambla	87
Väike-Maarja	84
Helme	75

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	2
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	30
1870–1879	206
1880–1889	724
1890–1899	928
1900–1909	254
1910–1919	268
1920–1929	425
1930–1939	649
1940–1949	37
1950–1959	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	157
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	94
Karl Viljak	72
Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)	69
koguja teadmata	62

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,788)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 28, 7/9, AES, MT 33, 15, AES, MT 70, 24, AES, MT 70, 27, AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 102, 13 (2), AES, MT 102, 20 (1), AES, MT 117, 53/4 (4), AES, MT 117, 60 (14), AES, MT 141, 8, AES, MT 173, 6, AES, MT 205, 17/8, AES MT 208, 17, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES MT 210, 15/20, AES, MT 219, 39/40, AES, MT 257, 22/3, AES, MT 268, 4, ARS 1, 398/9 (1), ARS 1, 430/1 (8), ARS 1, 487/9 (4), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), ARS 2, 28/32 (2a), ARS 2, 74/6 (11), ARS 2, 133/6 (19), ARS 2, 311 (79), ARS 2, 386 (152), ARS 2, 387 (153), ARS 2, 388 (154), ARS 2, 389 (155), E A 12 (20), E A 14/5 (24), E A 30 (11), E A 41 (69), E A 105 (5), E A 122/4 (6), E A 130/3 (5), E A 274/5 (35), E A 292 (3), E A 297 (10), E A 308/14 (2), E A 316/7 (3), E A 344 (6), E A 387, E A 419/27 (3), E A 429/32, E A 442/3 (3), E A 466 (13), E A 515 (2), E A 547 (3), E A 603/6 (582), E A 634 (5), E A 653/4 (24), E A 680 (15), E A 730/1 (5), E A 744/5

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: sika

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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.