silm
‘eye’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun
| English gloss | eye |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian |
| Total occurrences | 9,540 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 9,540 |
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
silmad, silma, silmi, silmist, silm, silmista, silmäd, silmini, silmile, silmil, silmas, silme, silmade, silmaga, silmast, silmale, silmis, silmida, silmal, silmata, silmadelle, silmadest, silmilta, silmije, silmisida, silmadele, silmasse, silmila, silmiga, silmilt, silmani, silmäkese, silgi, silmadessa, silmassa, silmest, silmide, silmadella, silmilani, silmileni … and 97 more of 137 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
silm · s
- 1. inimese ja enamiku loomade paariline nägemiselund (sageli ka<D> üksnes selle välise osa, kuju, asetuse kohta)
- 2. silmavaade, pilk, vaatamisviis
- 3. esineb mitmesuguste püsiühendite, ütluste, väljendite koosseisus v. eritähendusliku sõnavormina (vt. ka fraseoloogiaosa)
silm · -u 22
- kalalaadne usjas selgroogne, näit. jõesilm, merisutt; pl. sõõrsuude alamklass (Petromyzones)
Idamurre
silm
silm
- kala
Seto
silm
- nägemiselund: silm siĺmäs‿suurõk‿ku otspajap‿pääh Se; ku olõ õis
Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Idamurde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut · Seto 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 |
|---|---|---|
| eye (eyes, eye's, eyes') | 10,731 | 99.5% |
| little | 35 | 0.3% |
| until | 14 | 0.1% |
| eyeless | 12 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 10,787 |
Example verses
- lapse silma menna (AES, MT 3, 2 (3)) read in context
Into the child's eyes descend! - lapse silma minna (AES, MT 3, 2 (5)) read in context
Into the child's eye go. - tigedal silmad sinised (AES, MT 3, 7 (21)) read in context
On the fierce one, eyes blue. - sinilälled silma peale (AES, MT 3, 13) read in context
Blue-blossoms over [their] eyes. - ise silmista sinised (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Their own eyes are blue, - neilabä sain silmad lahti (AES, MT 3, 21) read in context
On Thursday I opened my eyes, - ee haiksi mu silmäkese kaiõn (AES, MT 22, 2) read in context
Oh, may my little eye not tear from gazing, - suen pia pesen silmad (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
I dress swiftly, wash my eyes,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| sinilill | 4,672 | 541 |
| pühkima | 2,296 | 357 |
| vesi | 1,923 | 754 |
| peale | 1,735 | 795 |
| pistma | 1,654 | 294 |
| sinine | 1,636 | 280 |
| vesine | 1,479 | 152 |
| pilliroog | 1,062 | 181 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Ema haual | 603 |
| Tunnen tuima neiu | 91 |
| Tunnen tuima | 74 |
| Venna sõjalugu | 73 |
| Määramata | 65 |
| Hällilaul | 64 |
| Oleks see mees minu! | 63 |
| Kurb laulik | 61 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Kuusalu | 282 |
| Haljala | 246 |
| Setumaa | 187 |
| Tõstamaa | 173 |
| Ambla | 161 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 160 |
| Karksi | 150 |
| Jõhvi | 146 |
| Kadrina | 143 |
| Paistu | 131 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 3 |
| 1830–1839 | 3 |
| 1840–1849 | 6 |
| 1850–1859 | 3 |
| 1860–1869 | 43 |
| 1870–1879 | 400 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,392 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,762 |
| 1900–1909 | 424 |
| 1910–1919 | 549 |
| 1920–1929 | 593 |
| 1930–1939 | 727 |
| 1940–1949 | 53 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Karl Viljak | 218 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 212 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 166 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 150 |
| Oskar Philipp Kallas | 115 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,346)
- ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (3), AES, MT 3, 2 (5), AES, MT 3, 7 (21), AES, MT 3, 13, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 3, 21, AES, MT 22, 2, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 34, 1/3, AES, MT 43, 89, AES, MT 59, 9, AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 64, 32/3, AES, MT 65, 15, AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 66, 7, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 88, 39, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 90, 7, AES, MT 102, 11, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1), AES, MT 163, 15/17 (8), AES, MT 173, 6, AES, MT 174, 32/3, AES, MT 188, 53/4 (1), AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES MT 208, 19, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES, MT 219, 14, AES, MT 219, 19, AES, MT 253, 12, AES, MT 266, 9/11, AES, MT 275, 1, AES, MT 283, 8/9 (3), ARS 1, 519/23 (1), ARS 1, 666/8 (1), ARS 1, 817 (10), ARS 1, 818 (14), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 900 (1), ARS 2, 337 (104), E A 14 (23), E A 21/2 (5), E A 29 (9), E A 49/50 (90), E A 53 (90, 91), E A 57 (102), E A 64 (117), E A 97, E A 117/9 (2), E A 121/2 (5), E A 156/62 (4), E A 164/5 (6), E A 171/2 (1), E A 199/200 (5)
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: silmä
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.