tee

‘road’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

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

tee, teeda, tii, teele, teed, teel, teede, teest, teelta, tiele, teelt, tiile, tielta, tiede, teelu, teeta, teesid, teega, tiil, teesse, teelo, teeltä, teeli, teesan, teeleks, teedel, teena, tiilt, teedi, teee, teelda, teets, teegatagõ, teelelt, teelä, teeved, tield, tielu, teedele, teeit … and 43 more of 83 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

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%.

Example verses

• se on tield on pois mängöhe (SKVR I1 149.) read in context
  That one shall go play off the road."
• saomme tiele tietäkseni (SKVR III2 2148.) read in context
  We announce to the road to inform,
• näin mie tiilt tullessan (SKVR III2 2259.) read in context
  I saw from the road as I came:
• puuttuit tiilt vassatuksin (SKVR III2 2296.) read in context
  You lacked leftward tools from the path.
• tii tietele tiiluska (AES, MT 3, 4 (10)) read in context
  The path to the path, stirrer(?),
• memme viidi teeda mööda (AES, MT 34, 1/3) read in context
  Mother was taken down the road,
• tii mul tillu tõllakene (AES, MT 34, 8) read in context
  Make me a path, a little carriage to Tillu,
• tii no mullõ tillo riike (AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37)) read in context
  Fetch me tiny kingdoms,

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.

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).

Collection places

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

Attestation over time

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

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Related lemmas

• Finnish cognate: tie

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.

Where a spelling can also be another word, it counts on this page only where the AI analysis read it as this word: In Estonian: tee

These spellings are left out of the Finnish verses and the counts, because in Finnish they are mostly another word: tee, tii

The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.

In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 12,826
Uses left out as another word: 3,007
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 289

In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 96
Uses left out as another word: 3,040
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0