tulema

‘come’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish verb

English gloss	come
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian and Finnish
Total occurrences	76,279
By corpus	SKVR 76, JR 155, KR 1,361 poems, ERAB 74,685

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

tuli, tule, tuleb, tulli, tulla, tulnud, tulge, tulid, tulema, tulevad, tulgu, tull, tuled, tulles, tullu, tuleva, tuleks, tulnu, tullid, tuleme, tulevat, tuleksi, tulleenna, tullessagi, tulite, tulev, tullin, tulemas, tulleessa, tulemaie, tulep, tulekse, tulevada, tulke, tuus, tullõ, tuuse, tulem, tulivad, tulees … and 652 more of 692 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

tulema

1. (eesmärgile osutamata:) lähenedes liikuma
2. eesmärgipäraselt lähenedes kuhugi (v. kusagilt) liikuma
3. nähtavale ilmuma, nähtavaks saama, esile ilmuma
4. kostma, kuulda olema, kuuldavaks saama

(+11)

Idamurre

tulema

tulema

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

English senses in context

How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.

Sense	Share
come	44.2%
came	32.4%
comes	10.1%
fire	7.0%
coming	3.9%
became	0.7%
let	0.5%
fire's	0.4%
become	0.4%
having	0.2%

Example verses

tuli tuohon nuoret miehet (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Came there young men,
tuli tuuli luodehelda (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Came wind from northwest
tuoho tuli pohjom pursti (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
There came Pohjola's ship.
tuli väinön soitantohon (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"Came to Väinö’s music;"
tuli põletas ära (AES, MT 3, 1 (1)) read in context
Fire burned it up.
mis sina kardad mulle tulles (AES, MT 3, 1 (2)) read in context
Why do you fear coming to me,
uni uksest tulla (AES, MT 3, 2 (3)) read in context
Let sleep come through the door,
tule koju lapse isa (AES, MT 3, 2 (4)) read in context
Come home, child's father

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
kodu	15,052	6,108
tänne	13,546	3,125
tuba	10,521	3,578
vastu	10,153	3,979
vastaan	7,551	1,623
tundma	7,139	2,272
tietää	5,110	2,094
mistä	4,943	1,593

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	970
Tule mulle!	867
Tule mulle	839
Venna sõjalugu	643
Tulen sanat	594
Mardilaul	510
Sõjalaul	435
Tulen synty	428

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	1,546
Kuusalu	1,277
Narvusi	1,127
Haljala	1,072
Paistu	921
Karksi	895
Kolga-Jaani	880
Halliste	774
Tarvastu	752
Helme	727

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1600–1609	1
1650–1659	9
1670–1679	4
1680–1689	3
1690–1699	12
1700–1709	39
1720–1729	1
1730–1739	3
1750–1759	7
1760–1769	10
1770–1779	13
1780–1789	85
1790–1799	1
1800–1809	21
1810–1819	205
1820–1829	302
1830–1839	760
1840–1849	1,315
1850–1859	1,197
1860–1869	468
1870–1879	2,635
1880–1889	9,797
1890–1899	10,738
1900–1909	3,881
1910–1919	5,484
1920–1929	3,926
1930–1939	9,712
1940–1949	1,328
1950–1959	1,175
1960–1969	1,154
1970–1979	9

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	1,273
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	1,043
Karl Viljak	857
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	850
Kaarle Krohn	714

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 56,346)

SKVR: SKVR I1 1., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 30 b)., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 46., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 111., SKVR I1 119., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 150., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 164., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 211., SKVR I1 214., SKVR I1 223., SKVR I1 228., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 245., SKVR I1 252., SKVR I1 261., SKVR I1 261 a)., SKVR I1 262., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 280., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 283., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 286., SKVR I1 287., SKVR I1 304.

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: tulla

← tule tuli →

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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.