sööma

‘eat’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	eat
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	16,489
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 16,489

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

süüa, sõi, süia, söö, sööma, sööge, söönud, sööb, söövad, söödi, söömata, sõid, sõin, sööme, söön, sõime, sõivad, söönu, sööd, söödaks, söövä, söönd, süöb, sööksin, söömatagi, süöma, söönü, söä, süövad, süüessagi, söa, süiä, söömas, sööte, söödäs, söömätä, söänd, söögem, süöda, süüakse … and 145 more of 185 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

sööma · piltl n+Jaan pole mees, kes sööb ja salgab

1. midagi toiduks tarvitades suhu võtma, mäluma ja alla neelama
2. eine(s)tama (hrl. teat. söögikorra ajal)
3. (millestki elatumise v. ülalpeetavana olemise kohta)
4. (parasiitputukate kohta:) purema, hammustama, närima; auke sisse närima

(+4)

EMS

sööma

midagi toiduks tarvitades suhu võtma, mäluma ja alla neelama
uuristama
purema
piinama

sööma-

sööma-

Idamurre

sööma

sööma

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
eat (ate, eaten, eats, eating)	18,370	89.5%
food	882	4.3%
feed (fed)	518	2.5%
guilt	277	1.4%
uneaten	223	1.1%
fault	136	0.7%
heart	71	0.3%
let	68	0.3%
while	61	0.3%
Uses counted	20,518

Example verses

kull sõi kana ära (AES, MT 3, 1 (1)) read in context
The hawk ate the hen up.
süöb ise võid ja leiba (AES, MT 3, 3 (7)) read in context
Eats butter and bread herself,
seal anti aga rasvast süia meil (AES, MT 3, 4 (9)) read in context
There they gave us fatty food to eat,
mart tab süia mart tab juua (AES, MT 3, 6 (15)) read in context
Mart wants to eat, Mart wants to drink,
mis õde sulle süüa andis mua pojukene (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
What did your sister feed you, my little son?
ära sõi ärjad mõlemad (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
Ate both oxen whole.
kull ära sõi (AES, MT 3, 24) read in context
The eagle devoured it.
pruudi majas sial suame süia (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
At the bride’s house, we’ll feast!"

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
jooma	12,711	2,265
sai	4,168	682
lang	3,498	538
andma	2,572	881
ära	2,473	1,007
härg	2,187	680
söök	2,051	331
leib	1,899	447

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
Oleks see mees minu!	176
Kosjahobu söötmine	141
Oleks	131
Liiri-lõõri!	115
Ema haual	110
Imemaa	101
Kaevul kosija	101
Arg laulik	96

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Haljala	363
Kuusalu	347
Setumaa	322
Ambla	276
Tõstamaa	255
Kolga-Jaani	230
Vigala	223
Kadrina	202
Pärnu-Jaagupi	194
Paistu	194

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	16
1840–1849	11
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	61
1870–1879	577
1880–1889	2,038
1890–1899	2,502
1900–1909	568
1910–1919	698
1920–1929	968
1930–1939	1,391
1940–1949	102

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	302
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	273
Karl Viljak	246
Oskar Philipp Kallas	200
Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)	166

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,594)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 1 (1), AES, MT 3, 3 (7), AES, MT 3, 4 (9), AES, MT 3, 6 (15), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 3, 24, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 25 (33), AES, MT 42, 8, AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 55, AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 68, AES, MT 44, 1, AES, MT 49, 9/10 (1), AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 49, 13/4 (4), AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6), AES, MT 59,17/8, AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 62, 11 (1), AES, MT 62, 17, AES, MT 65, 12/3, AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 3/4, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 70, 25, AES, MT 74, 3, AES, MT 76, 10 (2), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 18/9, AES, MT 90, 7, AES, MT 102, 25/6 (2), AES, MT 104, Anni 7, AES, MT 141, 28/30, AES, MT 141, 35, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 219, 19, AES, MT 219, 38/9, AES, MT 227, 37, AES, MT 236, 31, AES, MT 252, 6, AES, MT 253, 12, AES, MT 257, 8/10, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 512/6 (3), ARS 1, 519/23 (1), ARS 1, 543/4 (1), ARS 1, 633/5 (2), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 803 (1), ARS 1, 900 (1), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 7/11 (2), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), ARS 2, 74/6 (11), ARS 2, 97/9 (22)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: syödä

← sõsar

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.