tuntea

‘know’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	know
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	5,431
By corpus	SKVR 3,326, JR 2,105, KR 343 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

tunnen, tuntemaan, tunnet, tuntemahan, tunsin, tunsit, tunsi, tuntee, tuntenut, tuntemaa, tuntematta, tuntisin, tuntent, tunsivat, tunnettu, tuntemah, tunteman, tunnetaan, tuntemassa, tuntevat, tuntemata, tuntiessa, tunsim, tunnettiin, tuntemaha, tunnek, tuntemhaa, tundemaan, tundemah, tunnetahan, tuntea, tunteepi, tundemahan, tundu, tunnekaan, tuntoot, tunnettihin, tuntemoa, tuntenu, tuntisi … and 126 more of 166 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
know (knew, known, knows, knowing)	2,838	59.4%
recognize (recognized, recognizes, recognizing)	1,204	25.2%
feel (felt, feels, feeling)	628	13.1%
unknown	64	1.3%
sense (sensed, senses)	10	0.2%
even	5	0.1%
unrecognized	5	0.1%
Uses counted	4,780

Example verses

tunsi polvensa palavan (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
Felt his knee burning,
joka tuulen tuntemahan (SKVR I1 16.) read in context
Where the wind is known,
kun tunsi toet sanomat (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
When he knew the news true,
jo tunsi tuhon tulovan (SKVR I1 60.) read in context
jo tunnen valehtelian edl (SKVR I1 72.) read in context
"Now I know the liar before!
tunsi suonehen sulavan (SKVR I1 76.) read in context
Felt the vein melting.
tunsi suonehen sulavan (SKVR I1 76 a).) read in context
It felt the vein melting/flowing.
siitä tunsi väinämöinen (SKVR I1 79.) read in context
Then Väinämöinen felt,

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
työ	6,116	807
tulema	2,626	1,038
tuhma	1,480	206
mistä	1,310	255
kyllä	1,149	263
portti	1,112	198
tuuli	1,065	231
tuim	1,027	158

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
Käärmeen sanat	209
Käärmeen synty	148
Tunnen tuulet, tunnen tyynet	111
Mistä tunsitte meille tulla	97
Tulen sanat	94
Tuomaan runo	88
Emo erotti muista lapsista	80
Tulen synty	74

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	190
Vuokkiniemi	170
Soikkola	93
Suistamo	92
Lempaala	86
Vuole	75
Ilomantsi	66
Sakkola	48
Suomussalmi	42
Uhtua	41

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	3
1680–1689	2
1690–1699	8
1700–1709	8
1750–1759	3
1760–1769	2
1770–1779	1
1780–1789	10
1800–1809	5
1810–1819	43
1820–1829	86
1830–1839	211
1840–1849	324
1850–1859	226
1860–1869	37
1870–1879	143
1880–1889	463
1890–1899	334
1900–1909	261
1910–1919	229
1920–1929	60
1930–1939	416
1940–1949	84
1950–1959	102
1960–1969	92
1970–1979	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	382
Kaarle Krohn	112
A. A. Borenius	98
Frans Kärki	96
Volmari Porkka	93

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,160)

SKVR: SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 76., SKVR I1 76 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 124., SKVR I1 131., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 248., SKVR I1 255., SKVR I1 261 a)., SKVR I1 262., SKVR I1 264., SKVR I1 265., SKVR I1 265 a)., SKVR I1 266., SKVR I1 267., SKVR I1 268., SKVR I1 269., SKVR I1 271., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 274., SKVR I1 275., SKVR I1 280., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 283., SKVR I1 313., SKVR I1 350., SKVR I1 354., SKVR I1 354 a)., SKVR I1 361., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 362 a)., SKVR I1 363 a)., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 366., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 370., SKVR I1 372., SKVR I1 373., SKVR I1 374., SKVR I1 375.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: tundma

← tundma tuo →

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.