sininen
‘blue’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective
| English gloss | blue |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 5,010 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,865, JR 2,144, KR 207 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
sinisen, sinisellä, sininen, sinistä, sinisessä, siniset, sinis, sinisetkö, sinisillä, sinisille, siniseen, siniseksi, sinniisen, siniseh, sinisiä, sinisestä, sinisesä, sinisell, sinisemmät, sinisel, sinisiin, siniselle, sinisiltä, sinisten, sinuisen, sinisehen, siniseltä, sinniiset, sininenkö, sinisissä, sinisistä, sinisin, sinisee, sinises, sinisess, sinizet, сини, siniisen, sinervöinen, siniist … and 89 more of 129 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 |
|---|---|---|
| blue (blue's, bluer) | 6,325 | 96.0% |
| bluish | 34 | 0.5% |
| flax | 27 | 0.4% |
| seed (seeds) | 13 | 0.2% |
| field (fields) | 11 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 6,587 |
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, - selässä sinisen hirven (SKVR I1 35.) read in context
On the back of a blue elk, - siipasi sinistä hirvie (SKVR I1 37.) read in context
"Grazed the 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 |
|---|---|
| Huis sika metsään | 453 |
| Ihmemaa | 111 |
| Niukahdus | 103 |
| Niukahduksen historiola | 97 |
| Maailmansyntyruno | 78 |
| Kyynelten vierintä | 61 |
| Tuokaa tulta tuohisella | 55 |
| Silmät maksavat sinisen (morsiamesta) | 52 |
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 | 210 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 118 |
| Soikkola | 113 |
| Saarijärvi | 74 |
| Kaprio | 57 |
| Uhtua | 53 |
| Moloskovitsa | 51 |
| Suistamo | 50 |
| Ilomantsi | 50 |
| Lempaala | 47 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 3 |
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 5 |
| 1780–1789 | 9 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 27 |
| 1820–1829 | 47 |
| 1830–1839 | 186 |
| 1840–1849 | 229 |
| 1850–1859 | 242 |
| 1860–1869 | 32 |
| 1870–1879 | 126 |
| 1880–1889 | 429 |
| 1890–1899 | 329 |
| 1900–1909 | 272 |
| 1910–1919 | 347 |
| 1920–1929 | 142 |
| 1930–1939 | 794 |
| 1940–1949 | 109 |
| 1950–1959 | 206 |
| 1960–1969 | 187 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 282 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 218 |
| Volmari Porkka | 146 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 103 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 94 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,728)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 5., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 35., SKVR I1 37., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 45., SKVR I1 46., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 63., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 117 a)., SKVR I1 117 c)., SKVR I1 119., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 244., SKVR I1 251., SKVR I1 251 a)., SKVR I1 309., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 411., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 434., SKVR I1 436., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 447., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 452., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 488., SKVR I1 492.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: sinine
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.