uni

‘sleep’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English gloss	sleep
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian and Finnish
Total occurrences	7,785
By corpus	SKVR 1,724, JR 1,883, KR 157 poems, ERAB 4,150

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

uni, unta, unen, unda, une, uneta, undi, und, unes, unet, unesta, uneski, unõ, undid, unest, unessa, unista, unehen, unel, uned, unim, un, unete, unele, unitse, unetta, unia, unin, uneen, unten, unesi, uneke, unelle, unissa, unipa, unik, unoi, uneni, unilla, unilta … and 137 more of 177 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

uni · une 13

1. perioodiline füsioloogiline puhkeseisund, mille ajal organismi aktiivne seos keskkonnaga on katkenud, magamine; magamisaeg; unine-olek, vajadus magada
2. unenägu

Idamurre

uni

Seto

uni

magamine, uni uni magusap mett, a ahi `armap immä

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
sleep (sleep's, sleeps)	6,601	77.7%
dream (dreams, dream's)	1,537	18.1%
sleepless	168	2.0%
wolf (wolf's, wolves)	130	1.5%
even	118	1.4%
sleepy	65	0.8%
little	50	0.6%
uncle	13	0.2%
uno	11	0.1%
Uses counted	8,493

Example verses

nousipa uhkuen unesta (SKVR I1 26.) read in context
Rose seething from slumber,
nossi ukkuon unesta (SKVR I1 26 a).) read in context
Rose from old man's slumber,
pitkän unen maattuansa (SKVR I1 48.) read in context
After lying in a long sleep.
nousi uhkaen unesta (SKVR I1 64.) read in context
Rose threatening from sleep,
uni uksest tulla (AES, MT 3, 2 (3)) read in context
Let sleep come through the door,
uni uksest tulla (AES, MT 3, 2 (5)) read in context
Let sleep come through the door,
eks minu eit võind unta süöta (AES, MT 3, 8 (24)) read in context
Wouldn't my wife eat sleep,
oleksin uneski näinud (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
I would have seen even in a dream,

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	3,593	491
tulema	2,296	1,156
magama	2,199	480
nägema	2,129	533
ulkona	2,002	220
porstua	1,850	251
öö	1,778	336
kysyä	1,305	305

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
Tule uni uunin päältä	362
Unenägu	216
Uni ulkoa kysyy	204
Memme vaev	197
Uni	106
Uni ei anna uuta kuube	88
Laulu võim	76
Tule uni ulkoa	75

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	114
Karksi	108
Narvusi	91
Halliste	90
Kolga-Jaani	88
Haljala	84
Kuusalu	83
Paistu	75
Suistamo	73
Metsäpirtti	72

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	8
1700–1709	9
1750–1759	1
1760–1769	2
1770–1779	1
1780–1789	5
1810–1819	5
1820–1829	26
1830–1839	79
1840–1849	140
1850–1859	112
1860–1869	60
1870–1879	186
1880–1889	763
1890–1899	850
1900–1909	313
1910–1919	605
1920–1929	426
1930–1939	949
1940–1949	170
1950–1959	144
1960–1969	192
1970–1979	3

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	168
Frans Kärki	104
Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)	82
Karl Viljak	78
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	71

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,241)

SKVR: SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 48., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 251., SKVR I1 251 a)., SKVR I1 478., SKVR I1 534., SKVR I1 624., SKVR I2 757 a)., SKVR I2 758., SKVR I2 758 b)., SKVR I2 836., SKVR I2 836 a)., SKVR I2 1008., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1025., SKVR I2 1026., SKVR I2 1057., SKVR I2 1062., SKVR I3 1365., SKVR I3 1486., SKVR I3 1487., SKVR I3 1826., SKVR I3 1828., SKVR I3 1830., SKVR I3 1831., SKVR I3 1832., SKVR I3 1833., SKVR I3 1834., SKVR I3 1835., SKVR I3 1836., SKVR I3 1837., SKVR I3 1838., SKVR I3 1839., SKVR I3 1840., SKVR I3 1842., SKVR I3 1842 a)., SKVR I3 1852., SKVR I3 1853., SKVR I3 1854., SKVR I3 1870., SKVR I3 1871., SKVR I3 2030., SKVR I3 2065., SKVR I4 662., SKVR I4 663., SKVR I4 665., SKVR I4 666., SKVR I4 684., SKVR I4 687., SKVR I4 688., SKVR I4 689., SKVR I4 691., SKVR I4 692., SKVR I4 852.

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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.