uni
‘sleep’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | sleep |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 7,947 |
| By corpus | SKVR 1,724, JR 1,883, KR 162 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.
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Attested wordforms
unta, unda, une, uneta, und, unti, unesta, undid, unista, unel, uniste, uno, unu, undikene, unnikosta, un, unele, unitse, unin, unoset, unokõsõ, unolõ, unelle, unule, unneis, unsa, unnalta, umia, undiluist, uneksi, unulõ, unna, unnin, undsõ, unitsest, unnikost, untees, umaga, unerva, unissansa … and 350 more of 390 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
- 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 senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English, as a share of the entry’s analyzed uses. The analysis groups a lemma with its variant and cognate spellings, so close cognates can share one profile.
| Sense | Share |
|---|---|
| sleep | 67.5% |
| dream | 13.2% |
| sleep's | 8.3% |
| dreams | 3.6% |
| sleepless | 2.0% |
| sleeps | 1.9% |
| without | 1.8% |
| even | 1.4% |
| dream's | 1.3% |
| wolf | 0.8% |
Example verses
- kuta unnalta utelet (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
From which source you seek, - 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, - nukutteli nuuan joukon (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
Made the crowd 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, - laubä und viel lahutasin (AES, MT 3, 21) read in context
On Saturday I banished sleep,
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 | 347 |
| Uni ulkoa kysyy | 188 |
| Memme vaev | 185 |
| Unenägu | 166 |
| Uni | 104 |
| Uni ei anna uuta kuube | 88 |
| Laulu võim | 75 |
| Tule uni ulkoa | 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 |
|---|---|
| Setumaa | 159 |
| Narvusi | 123 |
| Karksi | 110 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 78 |
| Haljala | 78 |
| Kuusalu | 76 |
| Paistu | 74 |
| Halliste | 71 |
| Metsäpirtti | 65 |
| Viljandi | 60 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 5 |
| 1700–1709 | 9 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 4 |
| 1810–1819 | 3 |
| 1820–1829 | 27 |
| 1830–1839 | 45 |
| 1840–1849 | 100 |
| 1850–1859 | 94 |
| 1860–1869 | 49 |
| 1870–1879 | 163 |
| 1880–1889 | 647 |
| 1890–1899 | 749 |
| 1900–1909 | 279 |
| 1910–1919 | 529 |
| 1920–1929 | 381 |
| 1930–1939 | 887 |
| 1940–1949 | 142 |
| 1950–1959 | 134 |
| 1960–1969 | 160 |
| 1970–1979 | 3 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 113 |
| Frans Kärki | 98 |
| Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) | 70 |
| Karl Viljak | 70 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 57 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,555)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 26 a)., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 54 a)., SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 254., SKVR I1 403., SKVR I1 404., SKVR I1 440., SKVR I1 478., SKVR I1 622., SKVR I1 624., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 989., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1025., SKVR I2 1026., SKVR I3 1275., SKVR I3 1301., 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 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 I4 449., SKVR I4 498., SKVR I4 662., SKVR I4 663., SKVR I4 665., SKVR I4 666., SKVR I4 684., SKVR I4 688., SKVR I4 689., SKVR I4 691., SKVR I4 916., SKVR I4 1010., SKVR I4 2291.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: unine
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. English senses come from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.