tuli
‘fire’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | fire |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 10,867 |
| By corpus | SKVR 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
- 1. leegiga põlemise ilming, mille juures eraldub valgust ja soojust
- 2. mingi valgusallika tuli (1. täh.); selle valguslaik
- 3. (tugevate tunnete v. tundepuhangute, ka tulise, ägeda oleku kohta)
- 4. tulirelva(de)st laskmine, tulistamisega hävitamine
Idamurre
tuli-
- väga täiesti
tuli
Seto
tuli
- leegiga põlev tuli; lõke; tuleleek, -säde tuli `paĺli `öüd́si man
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 word | Uses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| fire (fire's, fires, fires') | 14,861 | 92.8% |
| fiery | 604 | 3.8% |
| come (came, coming, comes) | 459 | 2.9% |
| little | 95 | 0.6% |
| bring (brought) | 25 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 16,008 |
Example verses
- tulgoho tuline korgo (SKVR I1 3.) read in context
- iski tulda ilman ukko (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
Sky god struck fire, - pani kultoa tulehen (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"put gold in the fire," - iski tulda ilman ukko (SKVR I1 22.) read in context
Ukko struck lightning, - tuli põletas ära (AES, MT 3, 1 (1)) read in context
Fire burned it up. - sie tuld ja tõrva igavest mua emakene (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
Eternal fire and tar, my dear mother. - miks sa mullu mul ei tuld (AES, MT 3, 18) read in context
Why did you not come to me last year? - puhu sie tuli tubaje (AES, MT 3, 21/2) read in context
Blow the fire into the room,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| tunkea | 7,195 | 898 |
| iskeä | 3,504 | 547 |
| polttaa | 2,697 | 545 |
| syttyä | 1,657 | 212 |
| tuima | 1,607 | 271 |
| tõrv | 1,435 | 185 |
| tuulettaa | 1,397 | 172 |
| sammuttaa | 1,334 | 223 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Tulen sanat | 708 |
| Tulen synty | 518 |
| Mardilaul | 251 |
| Liiri-lõõri! | 215 |
| Memme vaev | 215 |
| Ken söi kesävoin? | 206 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 156 |
| Vesi vanhin veljeksistä | 108 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Suistamo | 256 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 246 |
| Narvusi | 242 |
| Karksi | 206 |
| Kuusalu | 197 |
| Setumaa | 194 |
| Paistu | 160 |
| Lempaala | 158 |
| Tarvastu | 139 |
| Halliste | 135 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1560–1569 | 1 |
| 1650–1659 | 2 |
| 1670–1679 | 2 |
| 1690–1699 | 5 |
| 1700–1709 | 14 |
| 1730–1739 | 2 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 51 |
| 1800–1809 | 6 |
| 1810–1819 | 88 |
| 1820–1829 | 111 |
| 1830–1839 | 302 |
| 1840–1849 | 522 |
| 1850–1859 | 319 |
| 1860–1869 | 114 |
| 1870–1879 | 513 |
| 1880–1889 | 1,868 |
| 1890–1899 | 1,914 |
| 1900–1909 | 731 |
| 1910–1919 | 736 |
| 1920–1929 | 540 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,377 |
| 1940–1949 | 216 |
| 1950–1959 | 115 |
| 1960–1969 | 100 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 529 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 269 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 202 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 199 |
| A. A. Borenius | 184 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 9,940)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 3., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 94., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 198., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 245., SKVR I1 272., SKVR I1 277., SKVR I1 286., SKVR I1 337., SKVR I1 350., SKVR I1 354., SKVR I1 354 a)., SKVR I1 355., SKVR I1 355 a)., SKVR I1 356., SKVR I1 361., SKVR I1 361 a)., SKVR I1 361 b)., SKVR I1 363., SKVR I1 363 a)., SKVR I1 364., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 366., SKVR I1 368., SKVR I1 370., SKVR I1 372., SKVR I1 374., SKVR I1 376., SKVR I1 377., SKVR I1 379., SKVR I1 380., SKVR I1 418., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 450 a)., SKVR I1 456., SKVR I1 458., SKVR I1 465., SKVR I1 467., SKVR I1 469., SKVR I1 470., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 477., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 492., SKVR I1 508.
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