tuba

‘room’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	room
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	14,122
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 14,122

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

tuppa, tuba, tubaje, toa, tua, toas, tuassa, toassa, toasta, tuas, tuasta, tubasse, tuvva, tubada, toasse, toadi, toast, tuasse, tuad, tuast, toad, toana, toasa, tubaie, toadil, tubadesse, tubaesse, tubasta, tuasa, tuppaje, tubajasse, toadile, tubade, toadiga, toale, tubajessa, tubaessa, tubajesse, tubale, tubanesse … and 86 more of 126 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

tuba · toa 25

1. ehitise (vahe)seintega eraldatud, hrl. ühe v. mitme akna ja uksega ruum
2. elumaja

Idamurre

tuba

elumaja rehetuba

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
room (room's, rooms, rooms')	13,067	84.7%
house (house's, houses)	1,552	10.1%
chamber (chamber's, chambers)	167	1.1%
bring (brought)	100	0.6%
come	97	0.6%
get	43	0.3%
behind	37	0.2%
fire	28	0.2%
find	23	0.1%
reach	21	0.1%
Uses counted	15,419

Example verses

ma tien tua tuome peal (AES, MT 3, 1 (2)) read in context
I know the bird cherry on the branch,
tirr turr tuppa (AES, MT 3, 6 (19)) read in context
Tirr turr into the hut,
turupardaa tuassa (AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27)) read in context
In the yard of the market rack,
tua tagant tuhkru ruuna (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
From behind the sauna, a chestnut mare,
kas siis lubad tubaje tulla (AES, MT 3, 21/2) read in context
Do you then promise to come into the room,
neli seina on tal toas (AES, MT 23, 9/10) read in context
Four walls are in her room,
enne kui tua laatan (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Until I’ve readied you,
pühi see tuba pöimi körred (AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6)) read in context
Sweep this room, braid sheaves

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
tulema	10,521	3,578
puhuma	4,264	650
tooma	3,044	1,002
taga	2,832	655
tuul	2,705	478
pühkima	2,514	428
taha	1,875	433
tegema	1,826	897

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
Mardilaul	315
Memme vaev	225
Neiu linn	216
Tuule tuba	214
Imelik maja	213
Kurva kodu	192
Liiri-lõõri!	188
Tule mulle!	152

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	484
Haljala	431
Kolga-Jaani	303
Ambla	275
Tõstamaa	269
Jõhvi	259
Kadrina	249
Muhu	212
Väike-Maarja	201
Pärnu-Jaagupi	194

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	3
1840–1849	9
1850–1859	6
1860–1869	23
1870–1879	475
1880–1889	2,193
1890–1899	2,570
1900–1909	610
1910–1919	847
1920–1929	797
1930–1939	1,055
1940–1949	52

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	394
Karl Viljak	344
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	332
Oskar Philipp Kallas	244
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	228

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,229)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 1 (2), AES, MT 3, 6 (19), AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 21/2, AES, MT 23, 9/10, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 53, AES, MT 43, 55, AES, MT 43, 61/2, AES, MT 43, 80/5, AES, MT 59, 5, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 70, 27, AES, MT 70, 34, AES, MT 76, 15/6 (8), AES, MT 76, 16/7 (9), AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10), AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 15/7, AES, MT 90, 12/3, AES, MT 104, Part 13 (2), AES, MT 141, 13/14, AES, MT 141, 16/17, AES, MT 141, 18/20, AES, MT 141, 24/5, AES, MT 141, 33, AES, MT 141, 37, AES, MT 174, 32/3, AES, MT 174, 35, AES, MT 204, 58, AES, MT 205, 35/6, AES, MT 216, 17, AES, MT 219, 19, AES, MT 219, 38, AES, MT 262, 22, AES, MT 268, 3, AES, MT 283, 23 (2), AES, MT 286, 16, AES, MT 294, 34 (25), ARS 1, 527/31 (1), ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 1, 735/8 (3), ARS 1, 818 (14), ARS 1, 868 (4), ARS 1, 900 (2), E A 3 (1), E A 5 (5), E A 9 (13), E A 10 (15), E A 14/5 (24), E A 22 (1), E A 26/7 (3), E A 29 (9), E A 30 (11), E A 33 (53)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: tupa

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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: tua