tulla

‘come’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	come
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	70,248
By corpus	SKVR 39,401, JR 30,837, KR 1,353 poems, ERAB 0

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

tulla, tulee, tulloo, tullut, tulin, tul, tuloo, tulet, tulevi, tulevan, tulit, tules, tullee, tulisi, tullen, tulkaa, tuleepi, tulis, tulou, tulipa, tullessa, tullessasi, tulkoon, tult, tullessas, tulloot, tulovi, tullaan, tuil, tullessais, tuloopi, dulle, tullakseni, tulj, tulkoo, tulepi, tulleen, tullun, tullaa, tultii … and 1,057 more of 1,097 attested forms

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
come (comes, came, coming, coming's)	40,941	93.9%
become (became, becomes, becoming)	1,494	3.4%
let	559	1.3%
fire (fire's, fires, firing)	438	1.0%
indeed	211	0.5%
arrive (arrived, arriving)	133	0.3%
even	62	0.1%
must	46	0.1%
arrival (arrivals)	44	0.1%
Uses counted	43,614

Example verses

tullaksensa toivotteli (SKVR I1 1.) read in context
Bade farewell to return,
jog ei tullut kuulomaha (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
Who didn't come to hear
jo tulou nut pohjom purzi (SKVR I1 3.) read in context
tullaksehe toivotteli (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
joba tulou pohjon akka (SKVR I1 5.) read in context
"Already comes the North’s hag."
tullaksensa toivotteli (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Wished himself to come.
kattou tulou pohjon pursto (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
tullaksensa toivotteli (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
He bade welcome for his arrival,

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
tuo	5,356	2,570
turva	3,373	694
ilta	3,019	783
pitkin	3,010	693
koti	2,899	1,221
tänne	2,817	856
tupa	2,706	1,008
turku	2,545	600

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	989
Tulen sanat	334
Käärmeen sanat	267
Tuomaan runo	265
Tulen synty	208
Hiiri metsähän menevi	201
Kalervo ja Untamo	201
Kanteleen soitto	195

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Narvusi	1,397
Vuokkiniemi	820
Lempaala	733
Soikkola	633
Suistamo	623
Vuole	498
Sakkola	482
Ilomantsi	421
Metsäpirtti	411
Rautu	356

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	4
1670–1679	4
1690–1699	16
1700–1709	31
1710–1719	1
1730–1739	2
1750–1759	12
1760–1769	10
1770–1779	14
1780–1789	92
1790–1799	1
1800–1809	19
1810–1819	138
1820–1829	295
1830–1839	966
1840–1849	1,749
1850–1859	1,695
1860–1869	225
1870–1879	719
1880–1889	2,840
1890–1899	2,378
1900–1909	2,169
1910–1919	2,859
1920–1929	871
1930–1939	5,359
1940–1949	979
1950–1959	1,112
1960–1969	1,076
1970–1979	8

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	1,633
Volmari Porkka	795
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	724
D. E. D. Europaeus	658
Kaarle Krohn	557

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 25,689)

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: tulema

← tuli tundma →

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.