tark
‘wise’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective
| English gloss | wise |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Estonian |
| Total occurrences | 4,727 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 4,727 |
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
tarka, targa, targad, tark, targaste, targast, targal, tarku, targale, targema, tarkade, targaks, targas, targasse, targalõ, tarkada, tarkadelle, tarke, tarko, targembas, targemb, targalta, tarkadele, tarkas, targala, targebesse, targembid, targemp, targil, tarkad, tarkadest, targaga, targembida, targõb, targõbast, targõmbast, targõmbat, targõmbit, targõmbäst, targõp … and 14 more of 54 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
tark · targa 24
- 1. selge, terava mõistusega, lahtise peaga, rohkete vaimuannetega, arukas, taibukas; intelligentne; ant. rumal
- 2. selline inimene
- 3. (tegude, jutu, eneseavalduse jms. kohta:) arukas, mõistust ilmutav, mõistlik; antud olukorras õige, otstarbekas
EMS
tark
- arukas
- arukas inimene
- rahvaarst
- kaine
Idamurre
tark
- nõid posija
Seto
tark
- arukas, tark `eestläse om iks targõmba inemiseʔ Se; tõõsõ päävä oĺl jot‿targõb, pańd
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 |
|---|---|---|
| wise (wiser, wise's, wisest) | 4,950 | 88.4% |
| wisely | 380 | 6.8% |
| smart (smarter) | 97 | 1.7% |
| wisdom | 64 | 1.1% |
| skilled | 57 | 1.0% |
| clever | 53 | 0.9% |
| man | 25 | 0.4% |
| Uses counted | 5,601 |
Example verses
- läksin mina tarka taga otsma (AES, MT 43, 70/1) read in context
I went to seek a wise one, - õlu olli ullu taar olli tarka (AES, MT 43, 88) read in context
The beer was noble, Taar was wise, - mul olid targad tallipoisid (AES, MT 58, 6) read in context
I had clever stable-boys, - tõuse üles tarka taati (AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2)) read in context
rise up, wise father. - tark ma olli tallipoiss (AES, MT 102, 25/6 (2)) read in context
Wise I was, the stable-boy, - tiädke tiädke naised targad (AES, MT 141, 24/5) read in context
Know, know, wise women, - no kuulkõ õks tii tartu targa herra (AES, MT 145, 1/12) read in context
Now listen, you wise lord of Tartu, - talled tarka tallitajad (AES, MT 171, 1/3) read in context
Sheep, wise caretakers,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| taat | 2,983 | 482 |
| kostma | 2,235 | 414 |
| naine | 2,072 | 550 |
| teadma | 1,632 | 316 |
| tallipoiss | 1,278 | 139 |
| tarvastu | 1,250 | 134 |
| kõnelema | 1,025 | 195 |
| talupoeg | 988 | 131 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Kaasa kaugel | 73 |
| Õlu viib meeled peast | 72 |
| Humal | 57 |
| Põlvist põdema | 56 |
| Tõbine naine | 53 |
| Humal hõikas | 51 |
| Neiu tahab talupojale | 48 |
| Neiu linn | 47 |
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 | 168 |
| Kuusalu | 145 |
| Haljala | 136 |
| Paistu | 129 |
| Halliste | 114 |
| Karksi | 110 |
| Tõstamaa | 110 |
| Helme | 90 |
| Viljandi | 89 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 83 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 5 |
| 1840–1849 | 9 |
| 1850–1859 | 4 |
| 1860–1869 | 36 |
| 1870–1879 | 249 |
| 1880–1889 | 848 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,076 |
| 1900–1909 | 191 |
| 1910–1919 | 214 |
| 1920–1929 | 282 |
| 1930–1939 | 276 |
| 1940–1949 | 20 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 89 |
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 78 |
| Karl Viljak | 71 |
| koguja teadmata | 56 |
| Oskar Philipp Kallas | 55 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,468)
- ERAB: AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 43, 88, AES, MT 58, 6, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 102, 25/6 (2), AES, MT 141, 24/5, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 230, 8/9, ARS 2, 77/80 (12), E A 29 (9), E A 104 (1), E A 148 (2), E A 210 (6), E A 222/1 (16), E A 226/7, E A 303/7, E A 308/14 (2), E A 363/4 (10), E A 372 (15), E A 398 (4), E A 400/1 (7), E A 402/3 (9), E A 406 (14), E A 409/13 (1), E A 432/5 (1), E A 460 (6), E A 555 (15), E A 571 (33), E A 607/8 (583), E A 624 (8), E A 628 (16), E A 635 (6), E A 636 (3), E A 652/3 (23), E A 670/1 (5), E A 672/3 (6), E A 675/6 (9), E A 715/7, E A 751/3 (713b), E A 755/6 (1), E A 806 (17), E A 856 (4), E A 893 (16), E A 896/7 (21), E A 900 (2), E A 905 (1), E A 906 (5), E A 946/8 (11), E A 961 (1), E A 963 (3), E A 963/4 (4), E A 965/6 (5), E A 982/3 (13), E A 984 (15), E A 991 (2), E A 997/8 (3), E A 1011/2 (8), E A 1028/31 (6), E A 1055 (6)
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: tarkka
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.