sika
‘pig’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | pig |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 8,132 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,575, JR 3,557, KR 292 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
sika, sian, siat, sikoja, sialle, sikani, sialta, siaksi, siuista, sioille, sikojen, sikaa, sik, sikana, siaks, siall, sikoa, sikaks, sikak, sioilla, sikakos, tsikkon, sikkain, sioilta, sikain, sikako, siallen, sikasi, sikanen, sikas, siatki, siankaan, sioissa, siatkin, sikaansa, sikasen, sikaini, sikane, sikansa, sikoina … and 111 more of 151 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 |
|---|---|---|
| pig (pig's, pigs, pigs') | 8,242 | 95.5% |
| place (places) | 164 | 1.9% |
| piglet (piglets) | 70 | 0.8% |
| sister | 17 | 0.2% |
| little | 16 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 8,629 |
Example verses
- liuutti sian lihalla (SKVR I1 79.) read in context
Greased with swine's fat. - livutti sian lihoilla (SKVR I1 79 a).) read in context
Greased with swine’s fat. - sinun sian levittäjäksi (SKVR I1 80.) read in context
As the spreader of your pen." - sian levittäjäksi (SKVR I1 170.) read in context
As pig scatterer, - syö vuosi sian lihoa (SKVR I1 208.) read in context
Eat a year's worth of pork, - syö vuosi sian lihoa (SKVR I1 228.) read in context
- toisen vuoen sian lihaa (SKVR I1 233.) read in context
The second year pork - vuosi syö sian lihoa (SKVR I1 234.) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| metsä | 8,896 | 1,426 |
| huiskia | 8,298 | 815 |
| hus | 2,609 | 256 |
| liha | 2,087 | 457 |
| harjas | 1,479 | 190 |
| hös | 1,346 | 110 |
| kärsä | 1,241 | 152 |
| sorkka | 863 | 122 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Huis sika metsään | 692 |
| Hämeen ihmeet | 130 |
| Kukon ja kanan saunamatka | 119 |
| Pakeneva | 115 |
| Mistä tunsitte meille tulla | 86 |
| Ison kotona ja toiselassa | 64 |
| Kultaneito | 57 |
| Iso sika | 56 |
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 | 212 |
| Lempaala | 125 |
| Saarijärvi | 106 |
| Uskela | 98 |
| Soikkola | 91 |
| Sakkola | 90 |
| Vuole | 84 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 82 |
| Kivennapa | 78 |
| Rautu | 72 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 1 |
| 1700–1709 | 7 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 16 |
| 1790–1799 | 1 |
| 1800–1809 | 6 |
| 1810–1819 | 35 |
| 1820–1829 | 58 |
| 1830–1839 | 202 |
| 1840–1849 | 356 |
| 1850–1859 | 342 |
| 1860–1869 | 20 |
| 1870–1879 | 73 |
| 1880–1889 | 445 |
| 1890–1899 | 447 |
| 1900–1909 | 393 |
| 1910–1919 | 879 |
| 1920–1929 | 321 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,165 |
| 1940–1949 | 142 |
| 1950–1959 | 238 |
| 1960–1969 | 246 |
| 1970–1979 | 2 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 380 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 134 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 131 |
| Volmari Porkka | 129 |
| Eemeli Vihervaara | 129 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,411)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 228., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 261 a)., SKVR I1 262., SKVR I1 263., SKVR I1 271., SKVR I1 278., SKVR I1 279., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 479., SKVR I1 557., SKVR I1 646., SKVR I2 701., SKVR I2 729., SKVR I2 784., SKVR I2 813., SKVR I2 834., SKVR I2 885., SKVR I2 894., SKVR I2 898., SKVR I2 900., SKVR I2 902., SKVR I2 1049., SKVR I2 1057., SKVR I2 1099., SKVR I2 1101., SKVR I2 1105., SKVR I2 1105 a)., SKVR I2 1121., SKVR I2 1123., SKVR I2 1200., SKVR I2 1213., SKVR I2 1215., SKVR I2 1249 a)., SKVR I3 1421., SKVR I3 1559., SKVR I3 1634., SKVR I3 1652., SKVR I3 1670., SKVR I3 1684., SKVR I3 1692., SKVR I3 1693., SKVR I3 1703., SKVR I3 1706., SKVR I3 1708., SKVR I3 1711., SKVR I3 1720., SKVR I3 1723., SKVR I3 1724., SKVR I3 1732., SKVR I3 1733., SKVR I3 1735.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: siga
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.