tie

‘road’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun

English gloss	road
Part of speech	noun
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	18,514
By corpus	SKVR 11,261, JR 7,253, KR 673 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

tietä, tie, tiellä, tielle, tien, tieltä, tiet, tiestä, tiätä, tiältä, tiell, tiel, tiessä, teetä, tiepä, tieni, tieldä, tielt, tilles, tielä, tiete, tiälle, tiemme, tiehen, tiensä, tietäni, tiep, tielen, tiee, tiält, tietäs, tjetä, tieossani, tiettä, tietähän, tietään, tiiet, tiäldä, tiehe, tieh … and 161 more of 201 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
road (road's, roads, roads')	12,390	84.2%
path (paths, path's, paths')	1,464	9.9%
way (way's, ways)	339	2.3%
know (knew, knows, known)	241	1.6%
make (made)	114	0.8%
knowledge (knowledge's)	66	0.4%
Uses counted	14,721

Example verses

siirru tieldä väinämöini (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
tien huvän käviduözi (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
hyvän tien käytyäsi (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
With good road behind,
huvän tien käuduösi (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
tien hyvän käveldyösi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
huvän tien käuduvösi (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
tien hyvän käveltyäsi (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Having walked good roads,
tien hyvän kävältyöi (SKVR I1 30 a).) read in context

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
myöten	10,897	1,650
pitkin	4,010	684
tehdä	3,342	1,149
pikkuinen	3,287	468
nauris	2,606	432
myötä	2,512	456
turku	2,136	424
poikittain	2,028	233

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
Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla	485
Pakeneva	268
Kilpalaulanta	173
Lemminkäisen virsi	168
Tii tii tikanpoika teki tielle nauriin	166
Käärmeen sanat	160
Koi	144
Rutsa	142

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	531
Lempaala	323
Vuokkiniemi	317
Vuole	263
Suistamo	243
Soikkola	236
Sakkola	212
Saarijärvi	198
Ilomantsi	184
Kaprio	176

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1600–1609	1
1650–1659	2
1670–1679	1
1690–1699	10
1700–1709	14
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	10
1760–1769	4
1770–1779	6
1780–1789	29
1800–1809	3
1810–1819	110
1820–1829	148
1830–1839	452
1840–1849	813
1850–1859	783
1860–1869	110
1870–1879	286
1880–1889	1,338
1890–1899	1,133
1900–1909	808
1910–1919	935
1920–1929	447
1930–1939	2,067
1940–1949	329
1950–1959	401
1960–1969	363
1970–1979	3

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	760
Volmari Porkka	409
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	353
D. E. D. Europaeus	287
Kaarle Krohn	255

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 10,629)

SKVR: SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 45., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 113., SKVR I1 144., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 146., SKVR I1 147., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 150., SKVR I1 151., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 156 b)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 158., SKVR I1 159., SKVR I1 162., SKVR I1 163., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 164., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 166., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 172., SKVR I1 174., SKVR I1 175., SKVR I1 178., SKVR I1 179., SKVR I1 179 a)., SKVR I1 181., SKVR I1 182., SKVR I1 182 a)., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 184., SKVR I1 184 a)., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a).

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: tee

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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.

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: teält, tiälä

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 Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 15,530
Uses left out as another word: 127
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0