suuri

‘great’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective

English gloss	great
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	18,113
By corpus	SKVR 10,625, JR 7,488, KR 644 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

suuri, suuren, suuret, suurelle, suureksi, suurella, suureen, suuresta, suurille, suurin, suuressa, suurilla, suuree, suurena, suurra, suuremmatki, suurehen, suurelta, suurii, suurell, suuremmalla, suureh, suuremmaksi, suuremmat, suuremmatkin, suurissa, suurten, uuren, suurna, suuress, suurellen, suurempia, suurie, suurekse, suuremman, suuresa, suurimman, suurimmalla, suurumii, suurija … and 211 more of 251 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
big (bigger, big's, biggest)	9,880	46.0%
great (great's, greatest, greater)	9,800	45.6%
large (largest)	1,720	8.0%
greatly	92	0.4%
even	83	0.4%
Uses counted	21,492

Example verses

vaingo suuren suon selällä (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
hauin suuren hardeilla (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
But on the great pike's scales.
hauin suuren hardeilla (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
On the great pike’s shoulders.
nousi suuri tuuli suvelta (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Arose a great south wind,
laski kurgi suuren kulkun (SKVR I1 19.) read in context
The crane released its great migration,
kuin saat suuren suomushauin (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"if you catch the great scaled pike"
kurg om piästi suuren iänen (SKVR I1 23.) read in context
koira suuri kahlehissa (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
"A great dog in chains,

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
silloin	4,363	826
etkä	3,372	502
pieni	3,135	1,020
hauki	2,668	533
sööja	2,139	289
leipoa	2,070	405
suku	2,001	417
susi	1,691	461

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
Raudan sanat	540
Raudan synty	529
Verensulku	299
Körö körö kirkkoon/tätilään/Huittisiin - kestitys	203
Kalervo ja Untamo	190
Maailmansyntyruno	167
Kanteleen soitto	166
Lemminkäisen virsi	165

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	712
Soikkola	453
Vuokkiniemi	417
Suistamo	356
Lempaala	327
Vuole	262
Sakkola	258
Ilomantsi	254
Kontokki	193
Uhtua	193

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	2
1670–1679	1
1690–1699	22
1700–1709	16
1710–1719	1
1720–1729	1
1730–1739	2
1750–1759	7
1760–1769	6
1770–1779	12
1780–1789	51
1790–1799	1
1800–1809	8
1810–1819	63
1820–1829	174
1830–1839	552
1840–1849	1,062
1850–1859	1,008
1860–1869	120
1870–1879	406
1880–1889	1,925
1890–1899	1,295
1900–1909	983
1910–1919	833
1920–1929	265
1930–1939	1,528
1940–1949	367
1950–1959	334
1960–1969	300
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	935
Volmari Porkka	633
Kaarle Krohn	453
D. E. D. Europaeus	415
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	353

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 11,377)

SKVR: SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 19., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 23., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 37., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 128., SKVR I1 144., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 156 b)., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 264., SKVR I1 267., SKVR I1 275., SKVR I1 280., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 285., SKVR I1 293., SKVR I1 294., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 b)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 305., SKVR I1 306., SKVR I1 307., SKVR I1 308., SKVR I1 309., SKVR I1 310., SKVR I1 311., SKVR I1 315., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 318., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 325., SKVR I1 328., SKVR I1 329.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: suur

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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.