ukko
‘old man’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | old man |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 9,438 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,909, JR 4,527, KR 352 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
ukko, ukon, ukot, ukkoni, uko, ukkoa, ukkoloilta, uukon, ucko, ukolle, uukkoi, uukko, ukolta, ukolla, ukkoo, ukkopa, ukkoloille, ukosta, ukkolaan, ukkoi, ukkoloin, ukkoja, ukkoloilt, ukkon, ukkurlie, ukoilta, ukkolaa, ukkonsa, ukoille, ukkolahan, ukk, ukoista, ukkojen, ukkosein, ukol, ukoll, uŋkon, ukod, ukossa, ukotta … and 97 more of 137 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 |
|---|---|---|
| man (men, man's, men's) | 12,532 | 85.7% |
| old | 12,139 | 83.0% |
| ukko (ukko's) | 2,028 | 13.9% |
| god | 237 | 1.6% |
| thunder | 134 | 0.9% |
| husband (husband's) | 107 | 0.7% |
| ox | 16 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 14,623 |
Example verses
- ukko ylinen jumala (SKVR I1 16.) read in context
The supreme God, Old Man, - uinotti pohjoilan ukonne (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
Who charmed the North's master, - ukko pohjoilan sanouve (SKVR I1 22.) read in context
- pohjoilan sogie ukko (SKVR I1 24.) read in context
- nossi ukkuon unesta (SKVR I1 26 a).) read in context
Rose from old man's slumber, - saappa ukko uutta lunta (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
"Make Ukko send fresh snow, - ukko turjasta tulee (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Ukko from Turja comes, - sanopa tuo pohjon ukko (SKVR I1 50.) read in context
Tell that old man of Pohja:
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 |
|---|---|---|
| uuni | 6,377 | 779 |
| ylijumala | 5,374 | 443 |
| akka | 2,387 | 513 |
| urahtaa | 1,991 | 179 |
| ryntty | 1,315 | 111 |
| jumala | 1,235 | 344 |
| hoi | 1,050 | 188 |
| ylinen | 964 | 125 |
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 | 176 |
| Polvenhaava | 162 |
| Tulen synty | 150 |
| Verensulku | 97 |
| Soudan, soudan Sorolaan, tätilään - täti lypsää, ukko juo | 81 |
| Sotamiehenotto | 80 |
| Karhua vastaan | 71 |
| Hääväki varataan | 70 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Vuokkiniemi | 261 |
| Suistamo | 239 |
| Uhtua | 142 |
| Soikkola | 116 |
| Kontokki | 115 |
| Ilomantsi | 113 |
| Narvusi | 105 |
| Suojärvi | 101 |
| Sakkola | 101 |
| Kivennapa | 74 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1680–1689 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 2 |
| 1700–1709 | 13 |
| 1760–1769 | 2 |
| 1780–1789 | 41 |
| 1800–1809 | 6 |
| 1810–1819 | 55 |
| 1820–1829 | 97 |
| 1830–1839 | 296 |
| 1840–1849 | 418 |
| 1850–1859 | 216 |
| 1860–1869 | 47 |
| 1870–1879 | 208 |
| 1880–1889 | 848 |
| 1890–1899 | 538 |
| 1900–1909 | 380 |
| 1910–1919 | 322 |
| 1920–1929 | 174 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,166 |
| 1940–1949 | 219 |
| 1950–1959 | 252 |
| 1960–1969 | 265 |
| 1970–1979 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 513 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 230 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 158 |
| A. A. Borenius | 146 |
| Volmari Porkka | 140 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,575)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 24., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 83., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 137., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 162., SKVR I1 253 a)., SKVR I1 262., SKVR I1 265., SKVR I1 268., SKVR I1 268 a)., SKVR I1 269., SKVR I1 271., SKVR I1 281., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 283., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 285., SKVR I1 286., SKVR I1 287., SKVR I1 288., SKVR I1 291., SKVR I1 293., SKVR I1 294., SKVR I1 298 b)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 301., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 305., SKVR I1 307., SKVR I1 308., SKVR I1 309., SKVR I1 310., SKVR I1 311., SKVR I1 316., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 320., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 323., SKVR I1 325.
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.