tietää

‘know’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	know
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	8,516
By corpus	SKVR 4,436, JR 3,848, KR 230 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.

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Attested wordforms

tiesin, tiesi, tiijä, tiiä, tiijän, tiiän, tiedä, tieä, tieän, ties, tiedän, tiä, tierän, tiän, tiie, tietän, tietäsit, tiärän, tiettäisin, tiije, tiijät, tieät, tietti, tiärät, tiiät, tiien, tietin, tietäkseni, tetten, tielän, tierä, tiettäsin, tietäsi, tiäs, tierät, tietit, tiämmä, tiäsi, tiejän, tieänpä … and 780 more of 820 attested forms

Example verses

en tiiä poloinen poika (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"I know not, poor boy,
en tiijä poloinen poika (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
I, wretched boy, know not,
tietti rautasen haravan (SKVR I1 38.) read in context
Made an iron rake,
empä tiijä timproailla (SKVR I1 58.) read in context
Nor know how to decorate,
enkäni tiijä timproalla (SKVR I1 58 a).) read in context
Nor know smithcraft;
enkä tiijä timproalla (SKVR I1 61.) read in context
Nor know its hammer-work,
empä tieä tietä käyä (SKVR I1 63 c).) read in context
No path to tread I know,
iki lierä tierän poika (SKVR I1 64.) read in context
"Eternal Lierä, Tierä's son,

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
mistä	12,533	1,637
tänne	10,688	1,500
tulema	5,110	2,094
en	4,804	1,085
kyllä	3,572	724
tie	1,921	602
suku	1,328	263
myöten	1,253	308

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	194
Käärmeen sanat	183
Käärmeen synty	159
Tuuti, tuuti, tuomenkukka, eipä tiiä emo rukka	95
Sijan tiedän, missä synnyin	85
Kilpalaulanta	67
Verensulku	64
Huolihevonen	63

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Vuokkiniemi	246
Narvusi	230
Lempaala	178
Suistamo	173
Vuole	154
Ilomantsi	118
Uhtua	114
Sakkola	105
Soikkola	97
Kontokki	85

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	11
1700–1709	20
1730–1739	1
1750–1759	3
1760–1769	1
1770–1779	1
1780–1789	9
1800–1809	5
1810–1819	32
1820–1829	104
1830–1839	348
1840–1849	488
1850–1859	386
1860–1869	45
1870–1879	195
1880–1889	609
1890–1899	571
1900–1909	421
1910–1919	503
1920–1929	192
1930–1939	878
1940–1949	205
1950–1959	225
1960–1969	148
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	591
Frans Kärki	162
A. A. Borenius	156
Volmari Porkka	149
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	143

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,419)

SKVR: SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 124., SKVR I1 151., 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 165., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 171., SKVR I1 174., SKVR I1 175., SKVR I1 180., SKVR I1 181., SKVR I1 182., SKVR I1 182 a)., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 186., SKVR I1 187., SKVR I1 188., SKVR I1 193., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 198., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 203., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 234., SKVR I1 244., SKVR I1 263., SKVR I1 264., SKVR I1 272., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 286., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 375., SKVR I1 377., SKVR I1 392., SKVR I1 393., SKVR I1 405.

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The counts and examples on this page come from the lemmatized text of four Finnic runosong corpora: SKVR, JR, KR and ERAB. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.