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‘eat’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	eat
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	16,152
By corpus	SKVR 9,616, JR 6,535, KR 715 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

söi, syö, syöpi, syönyt, syömään, syön, söivät, syövät, syyvä, syömästä, syöä, söin, syöp, syömähän, söit, syödä, syöty, syöt, syömää, syyvvä, syömä, söisi, syötiin, syömäh, söisin, syömättä, söis, syökää, syököön, syöny, syödään, syömässä, syötävänä, syötii, söitkö, syömän, syämään, syyväkses, söivä, syököö … and 615 more of 655 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
eat (ate, eats, eaten, eating)	16,324	96.4%
eater (eater's, eaters)	112	0.7%
let	85	0.5%
edible (edibles)	82	0.5%
heart (heart's, hearts)	64	0.4%
food (foods)	63	0.4%
while	59	0.3%
uneaten	57	0.3%
feed (fed, feeding)	36	0.2%
devour (devouring, devours)	29	0.2%
Uses counted	16,927

Example verses

miesten syövähän sijahan (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
To men's devouring place,
miesten suövässä sijassa (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
miesten suövähän kulähä (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
miesten syövähä kylähi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
To man-eating villages,
miesten suövillä sijoilla (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
seppä syöpi selvän leivän (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"The smith eats the good bread,"
söitpä koira saalihisi (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
"You fed your catch to dogs."
miesten syövähän siaan (SKVR I1 30 a).) read in context
To where men are eaten,

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
juoda	3,338	720
liha	2,892	722
nauris	2,803	443
tikka	2,755	406
kiitellä	2,430	290
nälkäinen	2,047	236
susi	1,936	471
leipä	1,802	430

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
Ken söi kesävoin?	184
Kalervo ja Untamo	149
Tii tii tikanpoika teki tielle nauriin	149
Iivana Kojosenpoika	129
Kalevanpojan kosto	120
Oljamissa käynti	118
Lemminkäisen virsi	117
Riisi	97

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	566
Vuokkiniemi	367
Suistamo	306
Lempaala	296
Soikkola	292
Sakkola	219
Ilomantsi	202
Uhtua	172
Kontokki	165
Vuole	157

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	1
1690–1699	3
1700–1709	35
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	2
1760–1769	5
1770–1779	5
1780–1789	28
1800–1809	7
1810–1819	87
1820–1829	142
1830–1839	474
1840–1849	992
1850–1859	714
1860–1869	65
1870–1879	265
1880–1889	1,441
1890–1899	1,152
1900–1909	845
1910–1919	1,248
1920–1929	477
1930–1939	2,359
1940–1949	414
1950–1959	336
1960–1969	397
1970–1979	5

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	1,020
Volmari Porkka	393
Kaarle Krohn	332
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	317
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari	286

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 11,543)

SKVR: SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 13., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 43., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 59., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 88 a)., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 104., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 127., SKVR I1 155., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 b)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 211., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 228., SKVR I1 231., SKVR I1 231 a)., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 238., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 273.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: sööma

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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.