valge

‘white’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective

English gloss	white
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	11,112
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 11,112

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

valge, valged, valget, valgõ, valgeeda, valgõt, valgem, valgeella, valgel, valgeelle, valgeeida, valgete, valgeid, valgeesse, valgeta, valgeeni, valges, valgeni, valgeet, valgeeta, valgele, valgeed, valgeida, valgeesta, valgeda, valgest, valgeeksi, valgid, valgeks, valgemida, valgeele, valgeeste, valgemad, valgõta, valgeetta, valgesta, valgema, valgeessa, valgõga, valgeja … and 228 more of 268 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

valge · 1

1. lume, piima vms. värvi; hele
2. (küllaldaselt) valgust omav; valgustatud
3. valgete poolele kuuluv v. sellega seotud, valgekaartlik; kodanlik
4. see, mis v. kes on valge (1. täh.)

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Idamurre

valge

valgus

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
white (whiter, white's, whitest, whites)	16,616	94.6%
light	239	1.4%
dawn	169	1.0%
bad	153	0.9%
until	140	0.8%
whitely	120	0.7%
naked	89	0.5%
field	83	0.5%
whiteness	63	0.4%
poor	29	0.2%
Uses counted	17,564

Example verses

valge peaga poisikselle (AES, MT 3, 1 (2)) read in context
To a white-haired lad?
valge ansu valge ansu (AES, MT 3, 2 (6)) read in context
For White Ansu, for White Ansu,
enne valgeta varane (AES, MT 3, 21/2) read in context
Rise before daybreak,
kased valged kaasanaised (AES, MT 36, 3/5) read in context
White birches as bridesmaids,
inne varra valgõt (AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19)) read in context
Before the early light,
ärä vahi valgit (AES, MT 40, 26 (35)) read in context
Do not eye the fair ones.
valged põlled vaatama (AES, MT 43, 51) read in context
White skirts to watch.
tõstke jalga valged sukad (AES, MT 43, 60) read in context
Lift your legs, white socks,

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
enne	5,071	1,097
vahe	4,349	810
vara	4,081	785
varane	2,469	250
vald	2,067	504
vahtima	1,446	255
särk	1,353	301
vaalima	1,275	163

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
Ema haual	175
Must naine	158
Laula, kuni elad!	105
Arg kosilane	101
Tule mulle!	101
Tule mulle	99
Laula	94
Metsast mehele	93

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	533
Haljala	293
Kuusalu	284
Karksi	261
Kolga-Jaani	224
Ambla	211
Paistu	208
Halliste	207
Tõstamaa	197
Tarvastu	182

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	7
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	9
1850–1859	5
1860–1869	66
1870–1879	543
1880–1889	1,938
1890–1899	2,363
1900–1909	501
1910–1919	643
1920–1929	793
1930–1939	981
1940–1949	68

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	248
Karl Viljak	225
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	198
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	151
Oskar Philipp Kallas	128

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,377)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 1 (2), AES, MT 3, 2 (6), AES, MT 3, 21/2, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 40, 26 (35), AES, MT 43, 51, AES, MT 43, 60, AES, MT 43, 77, AES, MT 43, 78/9, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 50, 4/5 (3), AES, MT 54, 5/8 (8), AES, MT 60, 37 (27), AES, MT 60, 37/8 (30), AES, MT 62, 19/20, AES, MT 66, 3/4, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 84, 1/2, AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 117, 60/1 (15), AES, MT 141, 10/1, AES, MT 141, 11, AES, MT 141, 25/6, AES, MT 141, 33, AES, MT 141, 34, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 154, 7/8, AES, MT 154, 13, AES, MT 154, 19, AES, MT 166, 6/7 (1), AES, MT 174, 39, AES, MT 200, 64/5, AES, MT 200, 69/71, AES, MT 203, 28, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 31/2, AES, MT 205, 32/3, AES MT 206, 53/4, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES MT 210, 6/8, AES MT 210, 9/11, AES, MT 216, 27, AES, MT 230, 3/5, AES, MT 230, 6/7, AES, MT 230, 10, AES, MT 230, 11/2, AES, MT 247, 52, AES, MT 247, 54, AES, MT 257, 23/5, AES, MT 262, 5, AES, MT 268, 4, AES, MT 282, 24, AES, MT 283, 8/9 (3), AES, MT 289, 31/2, ARS 1, 400/1 (3)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: valkea

← vald valkea →

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.