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tuli

‘fire’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glossfire
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences10,867
By corpusSKVR 5,903, JR 2,875, KR 366 poems, ERAB 2,088

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

tulen, tulta, tulda, tuld, tulehen, tulele, tulle, tulesse, tuline, tuleta, tulest, tuleh, tulonen, tulel, tuli, tulehe, tulille, tulitta, tulilla, tulese, tulelta, tulizen, tulia, tuleheen, tulialle, tulilta, tulima, tulialla, tuleest, tullehella, tulip, tulillen, tullehilla, tuliksi, tulissa, tultas, tulehmon, tulien, tulitto, tulian … and 95 more of 135 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

tuli · tule 13

(+4)

Idamurre

tuli-

tuli

Seto

tuli

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Idamurde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut · Seto 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 wordUsesShare
fire (fire's, fires, fires')14,86192.8%
fiery6043.8%
come (came, coming, comes)4592.9%
little950.6%
bring (brought)250.2%
Uses counted16,008

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
tunkea7,195898
iskeä3,504547
polttaa2,697545
syttyä1,657212
tuima1,607271
tõrv1,435185
tuulettaa1,397172
sammuttaa1,334223

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 typePoems
Tulen sanat708
Tulen synty518
Mardilaul251
Liiri-lõõri!215
Memme vaev215
Ken söi kesävoin?206
Lemminkäisen virsi156
Vesi vanhin veljeksistä108

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Suistamo256
Vuokkiniemi246
Narvusi242
Karksi206
Kuusalu197
Setumaa194
Paistu160
Lempaala158
Tarvastu139
Halliste135

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1560–15691
1650–16592
1670–16792
1690–16995
1700–170914
1730–17392
1750–17592
1760–17693
1770–17791
1780–178951
1800–18096
1810–181988
1820–1829111
1830–1839302
1840–1849522
1850–1859319
1860–1869114
1870–1879513
1880–18891,868
1890–18991,914
1900–1909731
1910–1919736
1920–1929540
1930–19391,377
1940–1949216
1950–1959115
1960–1969100

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot529
Kaarle Krohn269
D. E. D. Europaeus202
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori199
A. A. Borenius184
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,940)
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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.

Where a spelling can also be another word, it counts on this page only where the AI analysis read it as this word: In Estonian: tuli; In Finnish: tulen, tuli

In Finnish: tuli
Part of the uses of this spelling shown on this page were checked again against their verses in a separate AI reading.
Uses checked: 494
Read as this page’s word: 481
Unclear: 13

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Estonian: tulen
In Finnish: tulle

The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.

In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 6,296
Uses left out as another word: 13,169
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 1,009

In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 9,659
Uses left out as another word: 11,936
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 2,444