valkea

‘white’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective

English gloss	white
Part of speech	adjective
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	6,143
By corpus	SKVR 3,929, JR 2,214, KR 254 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

valkia, valkian, valkea, valkee, valkean, valkealla, valkiata, valkeata, valkialle, valkialla, valkiaisen, valkiain, valkiaa, valkiainen, valkiahan, valkiaksi, valkeainen, valkealle, valkiana, valgie, valkeasta, valkie, valkeeta, valkiasta, valkeana, valkiaan, valkieta, valkiat, valkiassa, valkeat, valkeaksi, walkia, valkeahan, valkija, walkian, valgei, valkeaan, valkeita, valkeaa, valgian … and 543 more of 583 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
white (white's, whiter, whitest, whites)	6,081	75.7%
fire (fire's, fires, fires')	781	9.7%
whiteness (whiteness's)	394	4.9%
brightness (brightnesses, brightness's)	238	3.0%
light (lights, lights')	170	2.1%
bright (brightest, brighter, bright's)	139	1.7%
blaze	56	0.7%
flame (flames, flame's)	36	0.4%
whitefish (whitefish's)	35	0.4%
whitener (whitener's)	28	0.3%
Uses counted	8,036

Example verses

mi munass on valgieista (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
kunnego nämä valgieset (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
When these white bits,
min munassa valkeata (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
What in the egg was white,
mi munassa valgieista (SKVR I1 13.) read in context
mibä tuoss on valgieda (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
mi on valgieda munassa (SKVR I1 18.) read in context
"What is white in the egg,
mi munassa valkieta (SKVR I1 21.) read in context
"What in the egg is white."
valgazi valandehutta (SKVR I1 24.) read in context
Bleached without full cleansing.

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
vaipua	2,498	329
varsa	2,165	336
valuttaa	1,957	222
polttaa	1,852	364
sammuttaa	1,616	230
vaahto	1,259	181
vasikka	1,256	208
valta	1,213	256

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
Tulen sanat	423
Tulen synty	298
Raudan synty	123
Raudan sanat	120
Körö körö kirkkoon/tätilään/Huittisiin - kestitys	118
Lemminkäisen virsi	84
Verensulku	65
Käärmeen sanat	60

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	351
Soikkola	278
Vuokkiniemi	199
Suistamo	195
Lempaala	148
Ilomantsi	99
Kontokki	98
Vuole	93
Suojärvi	81
Sakkola	80

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	2
1690–1699	6
1700–1709	21
1730–1739	1
1760–1769	4
1780–1789	35
1800–1809	9
1810–1819	66
1820–1829	112
1830–1839	312
1840–1849	466
1850–1859	388
1860–1869	51
1870–1879	209
1880–1889	967
1890–1899	593
1900–1909	452
1910–1919	401
1920–1929	130
1930–1939	727
1940–1949	204
1950–1959	216
1960–1969	180

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	544
Volmari Porkka	300
Kaarle Krohn	255
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	186
D. E. D. Europaeus	172

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,572)

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: valge

← valge valta →

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.