väki
‘people; force’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | people; force |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,380 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,634, JR 1,746, KR 258 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
väki, väen, väkeä, väkkee, väellä, väestä, väessä, väelle, väkehen, väkeni, väkiä, väekseni, väkie, väkee, wäki, väeksi, väkisen, väk, wäen, väjekseni, väkkii, väjessä, väeltä, wäkeä, väkesi, väkkeen, vägiä, vägie, väkkein, väkini, veäelle, vägeä, väille, vägee, väell, veäksi, väet, väkkeä, väjen, väkeen … and 171 more of 211 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 |
|---|---|---|
| people (people's) | 2,783 | 60.0% |
| force (forces, force's) | 1,026 | 22.1% |
| folk (folk's) | 499 | 10.8% |
| strength | 169 | 3.6% |
| crowd | 78 | 1.7% |
| host | 51 | 1.1% |
| household | 45 | 1.0% |
| crew | 18 | 0.4% |
| strong | 18 | 0.4% |
| Uses counted | 4,639 |
Example verses
- painele pahan väkie (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Repress the evil folk, - paineli väen pakanan (SKVR I1 56 a).) read in context
- väsäyty pahan väkiki (SKVR I1 61.) read in context
Her evil forces weakened." - veäksi vesi havolla (SKVR I1 83 c).) read in context
Dripped water on pine branches, - veäksi vesikivellä (SKVR I1 86.) read in context
Turned into water on a stone, - väki veärin vannottih (SKVR I1 227.) read in context
The folk swear falsely. - veäksi vesikivellä (SKVR I1 304.) read in context
Stood on a water stone, - onko vanhassa väjessä (SKVR I1 370.) read in context
"Is there in the old path
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 |
|---|---|---|
| vääntää | 1,540 | 191 |
| urohoinen | 896 | 65 |
| väsynyt | 890 | 87 |
| voima | 873 | 116 |
| vävy | 847 | 138 |
| keskellä | 843 | 133 |
| kukkola | 769 | 72 |
| väkevä | 768 | 97 |
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).
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 | 193 |
| Soikkola | 167 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 152 |
| Suistamo | 106 |
| Kaprio | 58 |
| Lempaala | 56 |
| Suojärvi | 50 |
| Uhtua | 47 |
| Ilomantsi | 45 |
| Tyrö | 44 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1560–1569 | 1 |
| 1600–1609 | 1 |
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 4 |
| 1700–1709 | 6 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 2 |
| 1770–1779 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 22 |
| 1800–1809 | 4 |
| 1810–1819 | 30 |
| 1820–1829 | 52 |
| 1830–1839 | 158 |
| 1840–1849 | 271 |
| 1850–1859 | 198 |
| 1860–1869 | 40 |
| 1870–1879 | 106 |
| 1880–1889 | 542 |
| 1890–1899 | 245 |
| 1900–1909 | 204 |
| 1910–1919 | 200 |
| 1920–1929 | 63 |
| 1930–1939 | 355 |
| 1940–1949 | 62 |
| 1950–1959 | 62 |
| 1960–1969 | 66 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 319 |
| Volmari Porkka | 213 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 105 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 88 |
| Jaako Länkelä | 84 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,707)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 56 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 370., SKVR I1 370 a)., SKVR I1 372., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 501., SKVR I1 541., SKVR I1 589., SKVR I1 630., SKVR I1 635., SKVR I1 641., SKVR I1 642., SKVR I1 643., SKVR I1 645., SKVR I1 645 a)., SKVR I1 649., SKVR I1 670 a)., SKVR I1 erill. [Laivaretki ja kantele] 13., SKVR I2 749., SKVR I2 774., SKVR I2 777., SKVR I2 786., SKVR I2 906., SKVR I2 907., SKVR I2 928 a)., SKVR I2 1005., SKVR I2 1011., SKVR I2 1013., SKVR I2 1017., SKVR I2 1025., SKVR I2 1055., SKVR I2 1064., SKVR I2 1065., SKVR I2 1067., SKVR I2 1070., SKVR I2 1071., SKVR I2 1072., SKVR I2 1073., SKVR I2 1074., SKVR I2 1075., SKVR I2 1076., SKVR I2 1100., SKVR I2 1103 c)., SKVR I2 1117., SKVR I2 1118., SKVR I2 1119., SKVR I2 1120., SKVR I2 1166., SKVR I3 1290., SKVR I3 1353., SKVR I3 1403., SKVR I3 1420., SKVR I3 1561.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: vägi
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.