taat

‘old man; father’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	old man; father
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	7,301
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 7,301

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

taadi, taat, taati, taadil, taad, taadile, taet, taadiga, taadid, taate, taadilt, taadilta, taadukene, taatini, taadist, taadikõnõ, tuadile, taeti, tuadil, taadilegi, taadikenä, taadilesi, taait, taadekest, taadiks, taadileni, taadilõ, taaduke, taateli, taatida, taadakene, taadeli, taadikse, taadiksi, taadilda, taadissa, taadisse, taadukesi, taadust, taadä … and 16 more of 56 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

taat · taadi 22

1. vana mees, vanamees
2. isa
3. vanaisa
4. abikaasa, (abielu)mees

(+1)

EMS

taat

(vana)isa
vana mees

Idamurre

taat

taat

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
father (father's, fathers)	4,868	61.8%
man (man's, men)	2,281	29.0%
old	2,281	29.0%
grandfather (grandfather's)	237	3.0%
behind	150	1.9%
dad (dad's)	141	1.8%
back	77	1.0%
dear	43	0.5%
grandpa	42	0.5%
daddy	31	0.4%
Uses counted	7,873

Example verses

eit saab kuulda taat saab kuulda (AES, MT 3, 11 (36)) read in context
Grandma will hear, Grandpa will hear,
vastas eite vastas taati (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
Mother answered, father answered:
taat läks taga järele (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
The old man followed after her,
taadi kallist kasvandikust (AES, MT 3, 23) read in context
From Grandfather's cherished garden,
kullerkupu taadi kohal (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
Over the buttercup father.
teises terve meie taeti (AES, MT 43, 77) read in context
Secondly, our aunt be well,
teises terve meie taeti (AES, MT 43, 78/9) read in context
In turn, our father be healthy,
ega mind täidind tuadil lüia (AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2)) read in context
Nor was Aunt allowed to beat me,

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
eit	7,794	1,170
tark	2,983	482
vastama	1,738	242
vastu	1,067	367
tänav	1,051	162
taadike	1,036	183
nokutama	839	85
takk	742	117

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
Ema haual	167
Oma ema ja võõrasema ootavad koju	114
Kosjahobu söötmine	112
Arg laulik	100
Lambamäng	75
Arg kosilane	71
Isa- ja mehekodus	68
Venna sõjalugu	66

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	301
Haljala	179
Vigala	170
Pärnu-Jaagupi	132
Kolga-Jaani	127
Märjamaa	124
Kadrina	122
Ambla	121
Karuse	118
Hanila	112

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	3
1840–1849	8
1850–1859	4
1860–1869	14
1870–1879	230
1880–1889	1,049
1890–1899	1,257
1900–1909	242
1910–1919	408
1920–1929	391
1930–1939	506
1940–1949	19
1950–1959	2

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	211
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	173
Oskar Philipp Kallas	172
Karl Viljak	158
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	104

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,413)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 11 (36), AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 3, 23, AES, MT 4, 1, AES, MT 43, 77, AES, MT 43, 78/9, AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 32/3 (4), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 76, 35/6 (7), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 141, 6/7, AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 174, 42/3, ARS 1, 900 (1), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), ARS 2, 81/8 (13), E A 6 (7), E A 6/7 (8), E A 8/9 (12), E A 24/5 (6), E A 29 (9), E A 29/30 (10), E A 36 (59), E A 39 (66), E A 41 (68), E A 47/8 (88), E A 51/2 (97), E A 63 (114), E A 63/4 (116), E A 64/5 (118), E A 68/9 (126), E A 103 (16), E A 143/4 (13), E A 145/6 (15), E A 147 (1), E A 152/3 (8), E A 185/8 (7), E A 189/91 (1), E A 213/4 (10), E A 214/5 (11), E A 222/1 (16), E A 226/7, E A 241/2 (9), E A 244/8 (11), E A 248/9 (12), E A 251/2 (16), E A 257/8 (21), E A 258/60 (22), E A 264/7 (26), E A 274/5 (35), E A 363/4 (10), E A 400/1 (7), E A 403 (10), E A 406 (14)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: taata

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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.