sõda

‘war’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	war
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,841
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,841

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

sõtta, sõjas, sõa, sõda, sõja, sõas, sõan, sõjasta, sõdaje, sõast, sõeas, sõjast, sodaje, sõea, sõjassa, sõjasse, soda, söda, sõttaje, sõdana, sõasse, sõdade, sõjan, sõjase, sõale, sõjale, sõdale, sõeast, sõjad, sõal, sõdast, sõdan, sõeasse, sõjaje, sõdas, sõdasta, sõdu, sõjaao, sõjal, södas … and 28 more of 68 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.

EKSS

sõda · sõja 26

1. organiseeritud relvastatud võitlus eri riikide v. ühe riigi erinevate rahvaste v. ühiskonnarühmituste vahel
2. võitlus, konflikt

EMS

sõda

organiseeritud relvastatud võitlus
sõjavägi

Idamurre

sõda

sõjavägi

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut · Idamurde 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
war (war's, wars)	9,159	98.1%
warrior (warriors, warrior's)	46	0.5%
swamp	28	0.3%
say (said)	23	0.2%
warm	18	0.2%
eat (eaten)	13	0.1%
sõjas	12	0.1%
sõja	10	0.1%
Uses counted	9,336

Example verses

siegi sõtta sõeluti (AES, MT 60, 36 (26)) read in context
This one was sifted into war,
joba sõda kaonu vana vaim vaounu (AES, MT 64, 18) read in context
"Already war has vanished, the old spirit has rested."
päike peale sõja tiib (AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3)) read in context
the sun spreads its warm wing.
kui lääd sõttaje minemä (AES, MT 88, 33/5) read in context
When you go to war:
mõtõl sõa sõidevata (AES, MT 117, 61 (17)) read in context
kesse meist sodaje menne (AES, MT 141, 18/20) read in context
Who among us has gone to war,
sõtta minnä (AES, MT 154, 1) read in context
To go to war.
sõda aie sõure liema (AES, MT 154, 18) 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
sõitma	7,550	1,200
armas	6,646	1,098
minema	3,250	1,276
mõõk	2,760	410
naine	2,173	673
mees	1,986	656
kas	1,882	498
ära	1,803	605

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
Venna sõjalugu	709
Sõjalaul	494
Laulu võim	72
Nekrutilaul - ÜLD	64
Lunastatav neiu	61
Nekrutilaul	61
Müüdud neiu	59
Sõja laul	59

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	204
Paistu	87
Tarvastu	63
Karksi	62
Helme	61
Kolga-Jaani	60
Viljandi	56
Halliste	56
Kuusalu	55
Räpina	53

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	1
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	3
1850–1859	4
1860–1869	22
1870–1879	188
1880–1889	439
1890–1899	540
1900–1909	158
1910–1919	145
1920–1929	200
1930–1939	249
1940–1949	15

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	45
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	44
Joosep Hurt	41
Karl Viljak	38
Jakob Jagomann	32

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,094)

ERAB: AES, MT 60, 36 (26), AES, MT 64, 18, AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3), AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 117, 61 (17), AES, MT 141, 18/20, AES, MT 154, 1, AES, MT 154, 18, AES, MT 174, 40, AES, MT 174, 42/3, AES, MT 180, 1, AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 257, 12, ARS 1, 388/91 (2), ARS 1, 411/3 (4), ARS 1, 431/2 (9), ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 649/50 (1), ARS 1, 651/2 (1), ARS 1, 680 (29), ARS 1, 733/5 (2), ARS 1, 817 (10), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 2, 1/6 (1), ARS 2, 7/11 (2), ARS 2, 38 (5), ARS 2, 69/71 (9), E A 22 (1), E A 103 (15), E A 107 (23), E A 191/3 (2), E A 244/8 (11), E A 279/81 (40), E A 317/8 (4), E A 350/4 (10), E A 372 (15), E A 559/62 (21), E A 627/8 (15), E A 643 (14), E A 648/9 (19), E A 678 (12), E A 747, E A 764/5 (6), E A 770/1 (3), E A 859/62 (9), EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 3/6 (9), EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 15, l. 11p, EKmS 4° 1, 15 (18), EKmS 4° 1, 71 (99), EKmS 4° 1, 136 (209), EKmS 4° 1, 169/70 (264), EKmS 4° 1, 277/83, EKmS 4° 1, 359 (29), EKmS 4° 1, 378/80 (45), EKmS 4° 1, 489/91 (34), EKmS 4° 2, 152/4 (20), EKmS 4° 2, 264/7 (2), EKmS 4° 2, 408/10 (119), EKmS 4° 2, 439/40 (3), EKmS 4° 2, 485 (29)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: sota

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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.