suvi

‘summer’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English gloss	summer
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian and Finnish
Total occurrences	5,647
By corpus	SKVR 1,131, JR 608, KR 81 poems, ERAB 3,908

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

suvel, sui, suvi, suve, suven, suvena, suvet, suveks, suvõl, suvvõ, suvella, suves, suvve, suvõ, suvele, suveda, suvehen, suvesta, suvelle, suvela, suvest, suvessa, suveh, suveksi, suvehe, suveni, suveen, suvelta, suvea, suvvee, suveta, suvõst, suvekene, suvelda, suved, suvell, suvizen, suvee, suvõs, suwen … and 83 more of 123 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

suvi · suve 12

kevade ja sügise vaheline aastaaeg

EMS

suvi

kevade ja sügise vaheline aastaaeg

suvi-

suvi-

Idamurre

suvi

Seto

suvi

suvõ suvvõ suvi timä suvõ käve kaŕah Se; niid́siviiso oĺli paiukoorõst, noid `peeti jo suvõl õ̭ nnõ Se;

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
summer (summer's, summers)	5,869	95.1%
south	160	2.6%
mouth (mouth's)	40	0.6%
little	20	0.3%
eat (ate)	19	0.3%
middle (middle's)	14	0.2%
until	13	0.2%
wolf (wolf's)	13	0.2%
family (family's)	11	0.2%
hay	7	0.1%
Uses counted	6,174

Example verses

nousi suuri tuuli suvelta (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Arose a great south wind,
suvekka nut vuarat suuret (SKVR I1 23.) read in context
suveh suurimman palasen (SKVR I1 60.) read in context
suveh suurimman palaisem (SKVR I1 61.) read in context
sui nad sõitsid saanidega (AES, MT 9, 1) read in context
In summer they rode with sleighs,
sui ma pää mõsi suu (AES, MT 22, 1) read in context
I washed my head, rinsed my mouth.
suvve me sulaste orja (AES, MT 45, 9/10) read in context
In summer, we’re servants’ thralls,
kiilt suvve miilt pähä (AES, MT 54, 5 (7)) read in context
The gleam of summer, earth upon the head,

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
sügis	2,012	246
suur	1,431	390
suu	1,278	425
suuri	1,276	370
soome_maa	1,009	107
suhkur	847	106
sööma	716	245
vilu	627	123

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
Tule mulle!	148
Oleks see mees minu!	145
Tule mulle	142
Oleks	102
Neiunälg	62
Sundija sulane	58
Karhua vastaan	55
Lemminkäisen virsi	55

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	264
Karksi	131
Kuusalu	101
Haljala	96
Vuokkiniemi	95
Halliste	94
Paistu	88
Suistamo	81
Helme	75
Tarvastu	74

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	1
1700–1709	4
1760–1769	1
1780–1789	4
1800–1809	2
1810–1819	8
1820–1829	25
1830–1839	70
1840–1849	136
1850–1859	63
1860–1869	58
1870–1879	356
1880–1889	803
1890–1899	941
1900–1909	287
1910–1919	276
1920–1929	264
1930–1939	543
1940–1949	65
1950–1959	30
1960–1969	26

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	117
A. A. Borenius	92
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	77
Oskar Philipp Kallas	57
Jakob Jagomann	56

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,109)

SKVR: SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 23., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 337., SKVR I1 338., SKVR I1 341., SKVR I1 363., SKVR I1 401., SKVR I1 410., SKVR I1 410 a)., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 438., SKVR I1 443., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 544., SKVR I1 544 a)., SKVR I1 545., SKVR I2 703., SKVR I2 705., SKVR I2 719., SKVR I2 722., SKVR I2 728., SKVR I2 728 a)., SKVR I2 744., SKVR I2 744 a)., SKVR I2 746., SKVR I2 757., SKVR I2 766., SKVR I2 766 b)., SKVR I2 771., SKVR I2 772., SKVR I2 773., SKVR I2 777., SKVR I2 785., SKVR I2 789., SKVR I2 791., SKVR I2 791 a)., SKVR I2 793 a)., SKVR I2 801., SKVR I2 801 a)., SKVR I2 802 b)., SKVR I2 803., SKVR I2 805., SKVR I2 850., SKVR I2 960 a)., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1023., SKVR I2 1026., SKVR I2 1174., SKVR I2 1175., SKVR I2 1176.

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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.