soo

‘swamp’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	swamp
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	9,525
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 9,525

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

soo, soode, sooda, soosta, soosse, soost, soole, soos, sood, soossa, soie, sohu, soota, soose, suoda, sooga, soho, sooo, soile, soolõ, soodel, soona, soessa, soosid, soodes, soolla, soisse, sookene, soina, soodesse, sooste, suosä … and 9 more of 41 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

soo · interj

1. lause alguses esinedes kinnitab nendingut millegi lõpetatuse kohta (vrd. selles positsioonis kasutatud adverbidega )
2. väljendab (sageli sõnapaaride v. tähenduselt eristumatu komponent olles)
3. koos sõnaga osutab millegi meenumisele: ah jaa

soo; · 16

samblane ja turbane kidura taimekasvuga märg maa-ala

EMS

soo

vesine maa-ala
soohein

soo

hüüdsõna

Idamurre

soo

Seto

śoo

śoo śood see (siin) huśs ai kat́s `nõkla (kaheharulise keele) suust `vällä, mi̬i̬śs üteĺ, et kaes‿śoo om katõ

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 · 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
swamp (swamps, swamp's, swamps')	5,160	93.7%
marsh (marshes)	94	1.7%
bog (bogs)	31	0.6%
warm	23	0.4%
lineage	18	0.3%
gut	17	0.3%
Uses counted	5,507

Example verses

seitse sitketa suoda (AES, MT 3, 6 (18)) read in context
Seven swamps without firmness,
seitse suoda sitkeeda (AES, MT 3, 20) read in context
Seven tough swamps,
soost sõstarde vedaja (AES, MT 36, 2/3) read in context
Marsh's teal-carrier,
suo jaarest suoda muada (AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4)) read in context
From the swamp's edge to grant land
aasad luhad arud sood (AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3)) read in context
Meadows, floodplains, tilled marshes,
soole maalõ sinitsit (AES, MT 180, 7/8 (c)) read in context
soolõ maalõ solgatsit (ARS 1, 469/70 (1)) read in context
susi sõit sooda piti (ARS 1, 525 (1)) read in context
Wolf ran along the swamp,

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
suur	3,836	758
üle	2,622	532
raba	1,983	229
sild	1,739	259
läbi	1,463	309
sitke	1,420	136
tegema	986	405
sipasopa	983	82

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
Mardilaul	179
Sillad soodele	134
Kadrilaul	127
Venna sõjalugu	68
Memme vaev	67
Kaasa kaugel	61
Poisi ja neiu matus	60
Sõjalaul	54

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	163
Haljala	154
Paistu	136
Kuusalu	122
Kolga-Jaani	118
Kadrina	118
Ambla	108
Halliste	108
Tõstamaa	93
Väike-Maarja	91

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1640–1649	1
1840–1849	6
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	23
1870–1879	245
1880–1889	843
1890–1899	1,041
1900–1909	229
1910–1919	279
1920–1929	306
1930–1939	611
1940–1949	24

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	159
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	109
Oskar Philipp Kallas	74
Karl Viljak	69
Peeter Penna	59

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,846)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 6 (18), AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 36, 2/3, AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3), AES, MT 180, 7/8 (c), ARS 1, 469/70 (1), ARS 1, 525 (1), ARS 1, 643/5 (1), ARS 1, 654 (3), ARS 1, 655/6 (1), ARS 1, 735/8 (3), E A 24 (3), E A 53 (90, 91), E A 60/1 (109), E A 65/6 (120), E A 69/70 (127), E A 71/2 (132), E A 77/8 (143), E A 97, E A 108 (26), E A 115 (185), E A 130/3 (5), E A 178/80 (4), E A 207/8 (2), E A 212/9 (4), E A 216/8 (15), E A 277/8 (37), E A 286/8 (45), E A 295 (6), E A 346/7 (8), E A 373/4 (2), E A 374/5 (3), E A 383 (14), E A 517 (6), E A 545 (1), E A 566 (26), E A 600 (2), E A 607/8 (583), E A 623/4 (7), E A 624 (8), E A 663/7 (1), E A 672/3 (6), E A 697/9 (16), E A 737 (5), E A 815/7 (6), E A 827/9 (5), E A 847/8 (10), E A 859/62 (9), E A 872/3 (15), E A 8l5/7 (6), E A 906 (6), E A 907 (8), E A 907/8 (9), E A 914 (26), E A 944 (7), E A 951/2 (15), E A 1006/8 (6), E A 1060 (12), EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 5/13p

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: suo

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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.