töö

‘work’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	work
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,768
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,768

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

tööda, tööle, tööd, töö, tüöda, töödä, tööde, töösta, tööst, tüöle, töölta, tüühü, tüö, tüöd, tööl, töös, tööta, töösse, töölt, tööse, tööga, töösid, töed, tüöde, tüölä, tüöst, töödest, tööla, töölla, töön, töössa, tüühe, tööks, töösi, töömes, töesi, töile, töödelt, töödes, tööksa … and 24 more of 64 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

töö · 16

1. inimese mis tahes tegevus, millega ta otseselt v. kaudselt loob endale elatusvahendid; (laiemalt:) vaimset v. füüsilist pingutust eeldav tegevus, mille siht on midagi ära teha; töötegemine, töötamine
2. palgatöö, teenistus, amet, töökoht (ka töötamise paigana)
3. töö (1.--2. täh.) tulemus, näit. kunstitöö, kirjutis, uurimus vms.; see, mille kallal töötatakse v. hakatakse töötama
4. millegi tegevuses olemine, liikumine, talitlus, funktsioneerimine

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Idamurre

töö

töö

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · 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%.

English word	Uses	Share
work (works, works', work's)	7,567	97.3%
empty	37	0.5%
trunk	12	0.2%
task (tasks)	11	0.1%
Uses counted	7,774

Example verses

tie tüöd ja niida eina (AES, MT 3, 3 (7)) read in context
Does work and mows hay,
moned linnud mune tüöle (AES, MT 19, 2) read in context
some birds to egg-work.
ei viisi torbi tööde tetä (AES, MT 44, 2/3) read in context
She wouldn’t do the distaff’s work,
pane sie tüö tähele (AES, MT 66, 1/2) read in context
Pay heed to the work,
mul on küökis kümme tüöda (AES, MT 66, 3/4) read in context
In my kitchen, ten tasks:
must jäi tüöda muterdama (AES, MT 66, 4/6) read in context
the dark one to muddle in work,
sui ta üöd ja päävad tüös (AES, MT 66, 10/12) read in context
In summer, nights and days at work,
tulge tööle te (ARS 1, 808 (3)) read in context
come to work, you.

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
tegema	16,128	2,658
tüdruk	2,010	328
tervis	1,801	215
tüdima	1,713	170
tütar	1,506	386
andma	932	320
tark	849	188
muu	740	275

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
Kust laulud saadud	166
Laulu võim	162
Haned kadunud	148
Tule mulle!	138
Tule mulle	131
Kust laulud	126
Arg laulik	67
Oma ema ja võõrasema ootavad koju	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
Haljala	156
Kuusalu	136
Halliste	112
Ambla	110
Karksi	110
Paistu	102
Setumaa	95
Kolga-Jaani	94
Kadrina	90
Väike-Maarja	87

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	11
1850–1859	1
1860–1869	52
1870–1879	280
1880–1889	970
1890–1899	1,074
1900–1909	223
1910–1919	327
1920–1929	293
1930–1939	278
1940–1949	17

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	135
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	116
Karl Viljak	112
Oskar Philipp Kallas	84
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	70

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,798)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 3 (7), AES, MT 19, 2, AES, MT 44, 2/3, AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 3/4, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 66, 10/12, ARS 1, 808 (3), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 900 (3), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), E A 3 (1), E A 4 (3), E A 11 (18), E A 34/5 (55, 56), E A 41 (67), E A 58 (105), E A 60/1 (109), E A 68/9 (126), E A 119/20, E A 139/40 (10), E A 156/62 (4), E A 162/4 (5), E A 164/5 (6), E A 210 (6), E A 222/1 (16), E A 225 (270), E A 345 (5), E A 358 (4), E A 359/60 (6), E A 363 (9), E A 463 (9), E A 578/83 (4), E A 622 (4), E A 636 (3), E A 641/2 (12), E A 677/8 (11), E A 684 (4), E A 697/9 (16), E A 703 (22), E A 705/6 (1), E A 728/30 (4), E A 730/1 (5), E A 731/2 (6), E A 732 (7), E A 743, E A 747/8, E A 829/30 (6), E A 839/40 (15), E A 892 (14), E A 919 (1), E A 984 (15), E A 991/3 (3), E A 1001 (1), E A 1005/6 (5), E A 1019/20 (1), E A 1026/8 (5), E A 1028/31 (6), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 135p, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 1/2

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: työ

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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.