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silmä

‘eye’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English glosseye
Part of speechnoun
LanguageFinnish
Total occurrences13,904
By corpusSKVR 8,094, JR 5,810, KR 504 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

silmät, silmän, silmä, silmin, silmää, silmiä, silimät, silmänsä, silmäs, silmäni, silmille, silmii, silmään, silimä, silmistä, silmäin, silmiltäni, silmästä, silmäsi, silimän, silmilleni, silmillä, silmien, silmiin, silemät, silmällä, silmie, silmäm, silmäh, silmeä, silmillesi, silmilleen, silmill, silmissä, silmillein, silmiltä, silmet, silmiltäin, silmiltäsi, silemän … and 426 more of 466 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 wordUsesShare
eye (eyes, eye's, eyes')14,438100.0%
Uses counted14,438

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
vuotaa3,025463
sitoa2,944472
siemen2,228334
siunata2,184329
kiero2,088280
kiinni2,068379
liina1,988338
lapsi1,987868

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 typePoems
Tule uni uunin päältä373
Käärmeen sanat360
Käärmeen synty351
Kateen sanat157
Käärmeen pureman historiola129
Älä lapsia lakaise, nosta lapset laavitsalle93
Lemminkäisen virsi92
Tule tuulena tupaan81

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Narvusi613
Suistamo360
Soikkola282
Vuokkiniemi266
Lempaala217
Ilomantsi191
Sakkola165
Vuole153
Uhtua139
Metsäpirtti138

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1650–16592
1690–16998
1700–170914
1750–17595
1760–17696
1770–17797
1780–178943
1800–180913
1810–1819104
1820–1829155
1830–1839459
1840–1849780
1850–1859690
1860–186972
1870–1879274
1880–18891,347
1890–18991,069
1900–1909766
1910–19191,000
1920–1929332
1930–19391,918
1940–1949332
1950–1959371
1960–1969380
1970–19791

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot777
Kaarle Krohn356
Volmari Porkka343
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori262
D. E. D. Europaeus261
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 10,164)

Related lemmas

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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.