vaatama

‘look’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	look
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	10,155
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 10,155

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

vaatamaie, vaat, vaatama, vaata, vaatab, vaati, vaatan, vaatemaie, vaatsin, vaatas, vaatsid, vaadata, vaatad, vaatamata, vaadake, voatamaie, vaatasid, vaadatakse, vaatis, vaatamas, vuatamaie, vaatasin, vaada, vaatamassa, vaatavad, vaadates, vaatema, vaatemata, vaadatasse, vaadatie, vaatamasta, vaatame, vaadati, vaatmas, vaatanessa, vaadatud, vaatate, vaateme, vaatin, vaataks … and 242 more of 282 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

vaatama · vaadata 48

1. oma silmi, pilku millelegi v. kellelegi suunama; silmadega jälgima
2. (millegi elutu v. abstraktse kohta:) otsekui vaatama (1. täh.)
3. kedagi külastama, kellegi juures käima
4. kellegi järele valvama v. millegi eest hoolt kandma

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Idamurre

vaatama

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Idamurde 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
look (looked, looks, looking)	10,219	79.8%
watch (watched, watching, watches)	1,161	9.1%
see (seeing, seen, saw, sees)	467	3.6%
barrel (barrels)	164	1.3%
lo	125	1.0%
observe (observed, observing)	99	0.8%
behold	68	0.5%
vat (vats)	52	0.4%
take (took, takes, taking)	46	0.4%
while	29	0.2%
Uses counted	12,800

Example verses

vares vaatis vares vaatis (AES, MT 3, 2 (6)) read in context
The crow looked, the crow looked,
oma pruuti vuatama (AES, MT 3, 5 (13)) read in context
To see my own bride,
mina künnin ja vaatsin (AES, MT 3, 14/5) read in context
I plowed and kept watch,
mine lauta vaatamaie (AES, MT 3, 21/2) read in context
Go inspect the barn,
meie neidu vaatemaie (AES, MT 5, 4) read in context
To see our maiden,
valged põlled vaatama (AES, MT 43, 51) read in context
White skirts to watch.
kaval järgi vaatamaie kaske (AES, MT 43, 55) read in context
To watch along a cunning path, birch.
vaadake me vaese valla pääle (AES, MT 43, 59) read in context
Look upon our poor village.

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
vald	5,522	1,056
varju	3,794	461
minema	2,929	1,587
välja	2,344	594
tulema	1,239	1,213
õu	1,092	362
peale	967	744
vaene	967	355

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
Laulu võim	360
Oleks see mees minu!	235
Palve sakstele	229
Kust laulud saadud	219
Kosjahobu söötmine	187
Oleks	181
Kust laulud	179
Arg kosilane	146

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Paistu	368
Haljala	290
Tõstamaa	285
Kuusalu	271
Kolga-Jaani	237
Vigala	201
Viljandi	190
Ambla	187
Pärnu-Jaagupi	178
Tarvastu	170

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	4
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	13
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	21
1870–1879	474
1880–1889	1,763
1890–1899	2,127
1900–1909	560
1910–1919	615
1920–1929	716
1930–1939	725
1940–1949	45

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	256
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	253
Karl Viljak	203
Oskar Philipp Kallas	174
koguja teadmata	153

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,632)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (6), AES, MT 3, 5 (13), AES, MT 3, 14/5, AES, MT 3, 21/2, AES, MT 5, 4, AES, MT 43, 51, AES, MT 43, 55, AES, MT 43, 59, AES, MT 43, 66, AES, MT 43, 77, AES, MT 43, 78/9, AES, MT 43, 80/5, AES, MT 43, 91/2, AES, MT 54, 10/1, AES, MT 65, 12/3, AES, MT 65, 15, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 76, 8/9 (1), AES, MT 76, 16/7 (9), AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 31 (3), AES, MT 104, Kurgvel, AES, MT 141, 16/17, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 141, 28/30, AES, MT 141, 32/3, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1), AES, MT 163, 4/7 (3), AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 163, 15/17 (8), AES, MT 163, 56/7 (1), AES, MT 174, 28/9, AES, MT 200, 59/61, AES, MT 219, 3, AES, MT 219, 38/9, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 820 (18), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 145 (26), E A 4 (3), E A 11 (17), E A 14/5 (24), E A 23 (2), E A 32 (51), E A 34/5 (55, 56), E A 39 (66), E A 41 (69), E A 43/4 (77), E A 44 (78), E A 50/1 (93), E A 53/4 (92, 93), E A 53 (90, 91), E A 53/4 (92, 93), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 54/5 (94, 95), E A 59/60 (108)

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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.

Forms of other words are left out of the verses and counts.
In Finnish: vaati