sininen

‘blue’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective

English gloss	blue
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	5,269
By corpus	SKVR 2,865, JR 2,144, KR 259 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.

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Attested wordforms

sinisen, sini, sininen, sinistä, siniset, sinis, sinoista, sinisillä, sinisille, sinelle, siniseksi, sinen, sinervon, sinini, sinnoja, sinellä, sinin, sinnooja, sinisel, sinisella, sinosta, sinike, siniselä, siniselle, sintsiset, sinuisen, niininen, sinelli, sinervön, simasella, siniä, sinises, sinisil, sinerwä, siniskön, sinniine, sinestä, sinikim, sinikön, sinojain … and 284 more of 324 attested forms

English senses in context

How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.

Sense	Share
blue	92.4%
blue's	2.9%
ones	1.0%
blue?	0.6%
bluish	0.5%
bluer	0.4%
without	0.3%
flax	0.3%
blueberries	0.2%
blueish	0.2%

Example verses

sinistä merdä muöde (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
selässä sinisen hirven (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Astride a blue elk,
selässä sinisen hirven (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
hirven sinisen selällä (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
On a blue elk's back,
sinervöizen lainehelda (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
mi on sinistä munassa (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
What is blue in the egg,
sini hirvellä selässä (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
On a blue elk's back.
selässä sinisen hirven (SKVR I1 35.) read in context
On the back of a blue elk,

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
säkki	7,039	684
punainen	3,323	550
silmä	1,753	418
silta	1,276	224
salo	1,030	169
sisä	986	194
punane	891	207
selkä	846	203

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
Ihmemaa	130
Tulen sanat	92
Myyty neito	91
Tulen synty	87
Niukahdus	75
Lunastettava neito	73
Niukahduksen historiola	73
Maailmansyntyruno	65

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	258
Vuokkiniemi	163
Soikkola	136
Uhtua	87
Suistamo	86
Lempaala	67
Vuole	61
Kaprio	58
Moloskovitsa	57
Ilomantsi	48

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	6
1730–1739	1
1780–1789	14
1800–1809	5
1810–1819	38
1820–1829	70
1830–1839	229
1840–1849	266
1850–1859	325
1860–1869	39
1870–1879	176
1880–1889	474
1890–1899	348
1900–1909	264
1910–1919	167
1920–1929	63
1930–1939	513
1940–1949	98
1950–1959	152
1960–1969	113
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	346
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari	211
Volmari Porkka	162
A. A. Borenius	109
D. E. D. Europaeus	103

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,365)

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: sinine

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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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.