sulho

‘groom’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	groom
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	6,276
By corpus	SKVR 4,258, JR 1,833, KR 185 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

sulho, sulhosen, sulhosia, sulholoja, sulhoansa, sulhoset, sulhoista, sulholoista, sulhokkaine, suluho, sulhoisen, sulhosella, sulhosiksi, sulhovalla, sulholoita, sulhoselle, sulhosille, suloni, sulhoillane, sulhoinen, suluhot, sulhoksein, sulhoksensa, sulhone, sulhosesi, sulhosten, sulhova, sulloin, sulhaa, sulhojanna, sulholles, sulholtain, sulhoseksi, sulhovani, siulai, sulhan, sulhoida, sulhoissane, sulhokaisen, sulhollen … and 183 more of 223 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
farmhand	27.3%
groom	24.8%
servant	14.3%
groom's	6.1%
grooms	5.6%
suitors	3.6%
farmhands	3.5%
servants	2.4%
farmhand's	2.3%
suitor	1.9%

Example verses

urisi umannon sulho (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
Grumbled Umanno's groom?"
ulkonen suvanon sulho (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
The stranger suitor:
ulkoinen suvannon sulho (SKVR I1 30 a).) read in context
Noble suitor of fortune,
ulkoinen suvanon sulho (SKVR I1 30 b).) read in context
Wondrous, gracious suitor.
ujellat suvannon sulho (SKVR I1 38 a).) read in context
Lament, Suvanto's groom?"
urajat umannon sulho (SKVR I1 58.) read in context
urajat umannon sulho (SKVR I1 58 a).) read in context
Umanno's steadfast suitor?"
urajat umannon sulho (SKVR I1 60.) 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
veli	1,099	395
su	1,069	152
velho?	856	91
ilo	846	182
kiitellä	709	91
suvanto	663	63
suomi	571	132
suuttua	457	81

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
Sulhonsa kylvettäjä	86
Lunastettava neito	60
Neuvo neittä nelinurkkaisessa	53
Kilpakosinta	47
Ken valehteli veljen tyhjin tulleen?	46
Pahan sulhon saanut	43
Mistä tunsitte meille tulla	42
Iivana Kojosenpoika	40

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Lempaala	96
Vuole	95
Sakkola	82
Narvusi	80
Vuokkiniemi	60
Moloskovitsa	49
Rautu	49
Venjoki	47
Metsäpirtti	47
Toksova	46

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1810–1819	3
1820–1829	11
1830–1839	105
1840–1849	253
1850–1859	237
1860–1869	6
1870–1879	78
1880–1889	145
1890–1899	250
1900–1909	156
1910–1919	77
1920–1929	27
1930–1939	162
1940–1949	33
1950–1959	34
1960–1969	29

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	171
D. E. D. Europaeus	107
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	85
H. A. Reinholm	72
Fr. A. Saxbäck	69

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 1,611)

SKVR: SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 353., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 392., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 437., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 450., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 459., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 479., SKVR I1 480., SKVR I1 487., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 492., SKVR I1 493., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 495., SKVR I1 496., SKVR I1 497., SKVR I1 498., SKVR I1 502., SKVR I1 504., SKVR I1 508., SKVR I1 539., SKVR I1 589., SKVR I1 597., SKVR I1 603., SKVR I1 604., SKVR I1 609., SKVR I1 635., SKVR I1 erill. [Polvenhaava] 1., SKVR I2 776., SKVR I2 816., SKVR I2 871., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1037.

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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.