tüdruk

‘girl’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	girl
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	4,599
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 4,598

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

tüdruk, tüdrukud, tüdruku, tüdrukuida, tüdrik, tüdrukute, tüdrukut, tüdrukida, tüdrikud, tüdrukuid, tidruk, tüdriku, tüdrek, tidruku, tüdrukul, tüdrukust, tüdrukule, tüdrukutel, tüdrekud, tidrukud, tüdrikida, tüdrukuga, tüdrukulle, tidrek, tüdrukuta, tüdrugu, tüdrukutest, tüdrukuks, tüdrikute, tütrigu, tüdrukuda, tüdrukid, tüdrük, tüdrukuna, tüdrekida, tüdreku, tüdrukista, tütriko, tütrikud, tidrukida … and 150 more of 190 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

tüdruk · -u 2

1. naissoost laps, tütarlaps
2. neiu, piiga, tütarlaps; kellegi pruut, kallim, tüdruksõber
3. naine
4. (emase koera kohta)

Idamurre

tüdruk

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
girl (girls, girl's, girls')	5,880	98.9%
maiden (maiden's)	27	0.5%
maid	26	0.4%
little	22	0.4%
girlhood	8	0.1%
Uses counted	5,944

Example verses

või mis ilus kena tüdruk (AES, MT 3, 2 (6)) read in context
Oh, what beautiful sweet girl!
tere siitpere tüdruk mai (AES, MT 3, 5 (14)) read in context
Greetings to the girl Mai of this house,
tüdrukud jäävad tükkis ilma (AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6)) read in context
Girls remain wholly without
tüdrugutel tükkis ee (AES, MT 27, 32/4) read in context
Girls not a piece,
tüdruk tukkus turva naeal (AES, MT 42, 9) read in context
the girl dozed, cheek on palm,
kümme tüdrukud külassa (AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9)) read in context
Ten girls in the village,
kas miä tüdruk tüüd es tii (AES, MT 75, 32) read in context
teotide tidrukida (AES, MT 75, 32) read in context
you insulted the girls,

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
töö	2,010	328
teotama	1,931	188
tegema	1,361	433
tühi	1,021	159
ilus	850	193
küla	553	186
türgi	358	45
tuttav	325	45

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
Vihm mujale maale	95
Imed	86
Laulu võim	83
Tule mulle	67
Tule mulle!	67
Kust laulud saadud	64
Vihm üle	50
Kust laulud	49

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Karksi	111
Halliste	107
Paistu	104
Ambla	95
Viljandi	88
Tarvastu	86
Kolga-Jaani	67
Vigala	67
Haljala	65
Tori	64

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1840–1849	5
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	18
1870–1879	195
1880–1889	700
1890–1899	861
1900–1909	180
1910–1919	229
1920–1929	320
1930–1939	260
1940–1949	27

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	116
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	78
koguja teadmata	59
Karl Viljak	53
Gustav Seen	52

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,034)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (6), AES, MT 3, 5 (14), AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 27, 32/4, AES, MT 42, 9, AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 75, 32, AES, MT 75, 32, AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 166, 2/3 (1), AES, MT 174, 37/8, ARS 1, 807 (1), ARS 1, 849 (2), E A 4 (3), E A 26 (1), E A 32 (48), E A 34/5 (55, 56), E A 50 (92), E A 62/3 (113), E A 66/7 (122), E A 77/8 (143), E A 78/9 (145), E A 140/1 (11), E A 164/5 (6), E A 202/3 (12), E A 210/1 (8), E A 291/2 (2), E A 308/14 (2), E A 334 (19), E A 335 (20), E A 345 (5), E A 376/7 (5), E A 389, E A 404 (11), E A 409/13 (1), E A 451/2 (17), E A 457 (3), E A 552/3 (12), E A 555 (15), E A 570 (31), E A 570 (32), E A 583/4 (5), E A 640 (10), E A 660/1 (2), E A 661 (3), E A 663/7 (1), E A 682 (2), E A 696/7 (15), E A 705/6 (1), E A 774/5 (6), E A 777/8 (9), E A 786 (22), E A 796 (6), E A 819/20 (1), E A 840/2 (16), E A 883/4 (8), E A 912/3 (23), E A 914/5 (28)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: tyttö

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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.