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‘know’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	know
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	8,286
By corpus	SKVR 4,436, JR 3,848, KR 304 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

tiesit, tiesin, tiesi, tiijä, tiiä, tiijän, tiäsit, tiiän, tiedä, tieä, tieän, tietää, tiedän, tiä, tietäisit, tietämättä, tiennyt, tiän, tiie, tietän, tiäsin, tietäisin, tiijjä, tietäsit, tietäsin, tiijät, tietämätä, tieät, tietänt, tiedät, tietämähän, tiiät, tiien, tiijen, tiijjän, tietämään, tetten, tietänyt, tiettäsin, tietäsi … and 463 more of 503 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
know (knew, known, knows, knowing)	10,501	94.2%
road (road's, roads, roads')	204	1.8%
path (paths, path's, paths')	64	0.6%
unknowing	55	0.5%
knowledge (knowledge's)	52	0.5%
way (way's)	46	0.4%
make (made, makes, making)	37	0.3%
indeed	27	0.2%
unknowingly	25	0.2%
unknown	12	0.1%
Uses counted	11,149

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,
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,
ei tiiä vein naista pyytä (SKVR I1 80.) read in context
He knew not to woo the mead-woman,
sen mie sepäksi tiijän (SKVR I1 83.) 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
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	763
Käärmeen sanat	202
Käärmeen synty	171
Tuuti, tuuti, tuomenkukka, eipä tiiä emo rukka	107
Iivana Kojosenpoika	106
Sijan tiedän, missä synnyin	91
Mistä tunsitte meille tulla	82
Kilpalaulanta	78

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	277
Vuokkiniemi	275
Lempaala	207
Suistamo	187
Vuole	151
Sakkola	142
Soikkola	140
Uhtua	131
Ilomantsi	121
Saarijärvi	102

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	15
1700–1709	20
1720–1729	1
1750–1759	8
1760–1769	3
1770–1779	2
1780–1789	21
1800–1809	3
1810–1819	34
1820–1829	108
1830–1839	382
1840–1849	556
1850–1859	477
1860–1869	52
1870–1879	206
1880–1889	733
1890–1899	685
1900–1909	569
1910–1919	799
1920–1929	298
1930–1939	1,422
1940–1949	253
1950–1959	263
1960–1969	279
1970–1979	2

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	652
Volmari Porkka	192
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	181
D. E. D. Europaeus	160
A. A. Borenius	157

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,208)

SKVR: SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 124., SKVR I1 147., SKVR I1 149., 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 165., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 171., SKVR I1 174., SKVR I1 175., SKVR I1 178., SKVR I1 180., SKVR I1 181., SKVR I1 182., SKVR I1 182 a)., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 184 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 199., 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.

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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.