vana
‘old’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish adjective
| English gloss | old |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 16,068 |
| By corpus | SKVR 167, JR 176, KR 5 poems, ERAB 15,724 |
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
vana, vanad, vanale, vanast, vanu, vanna, vanal, vanas, vanaks, vanan, vanasse, vanasta, vanade, vanalõ, vanat, vanada, vanule, vanaga, vanaksi, vane, vanah, vanaksa, vanalt, vano, vanaste, vanulõ, vanma, vanaje, vanadelle, vanakõnõ, vanana, vanassa, vanõba, vanadel, vanäd, vanadani, vanata, vanoa, vanadest, vanalla … and 46 more of 86 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
vana · 7
- 1. kaua elanud, pika eaga; ant. noor
- 2. selline, mis on ammu tekkinud v. olemas, kaua kestnud, varase(ma)st ajast pärit; hrl. ant. uus
- 3. kunagine, endine, mitte praegune; varasem, selline, mille kõrval v. asemel on uuem; ant. uus
- 4. selline nagu enne, endine, muutumatu, sama
Idamurre
vana
- vana
Seto
vana
- noh, kuuś kuud, säidse kuud, sõ̭ ss nakass [emis kulti] `ot́sma
Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Idamurde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut · Seto 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 |
|---|---|---|
| old (oldest, old's) | 38,708 | 97.6% |
| eldest | 616 | 1.6% |
| elder (elders) | 113 | 0.3% |
| man | 110 | 0.3% |
| vanha | 64 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 39,657 |
Example verses
- vanu nuolen sen (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Plucked the arrow :sen - vanu neiti vaskivaippa (SKVR I1 89.) read in context
Forge, maiden, copper cloak." - vanu nuotan vaskisenki (SKVR I1 94.) read in context
- vanu vaskista peseä (SKVR I1 100.) read in context
Watched from copper nest, - vii vagu vana pugala (AES, MT 3, 10 (32)) read in context
- vanad köied sõlmed sies (AES, MT 3, 11 (38)) read in context
Old ropes, knots within. - peräst sai vana tuvagunõna (AES, MT 15, 4) read in context
Afterward, the old one became the housekeeper, - vana sulupputtadi (AES, MT 21, 10) read in context
The old locked chest.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| naine | 3,137 | 1,079 |
| vares | 2,243 | 421 |
| mõlemad | 1,851 | 310 |
| kasukas | 1,655 | 308 |
| järg | 1,349 | 172 |
| taaler | 1,286 | 192 |
| vastama | 1,235 | 223 |
| vald | 988 | 342 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Lauliku sõim | 273 |
| Halb laulik | 216 |
| Öösel üksi | 156 |
| Venna sõjalugu | 147 |
| Liiri-lõõri! | 126 |
| Hollandi sulane | 118 |
| Laulu võim | 99 |
| Põlvist põdema | 98 |
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 | 383 |
| Kuusalu | 378 |
| Haljala | 277 |
| Paistu | 276 |
| Halliste | 264 |
| Karksi | 248 |
| Ambla | 225 |
| Tarvastu | 222 |
| Helme | 209 |
| Viljandi | 196 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 1 |
| 1800–1809 | 1 |
| 1810–1819 | 2 |
| 1820–1829 | 12 |
| 1830–1839 | 11 |
| 1840–1849 | 21 |
| 1850–1859 | 13 |
| 1860–1869 | 108 |
| 1870–1879 | 666 |
| 1880–1889 | 2,084 |
| 1890–1899 | 2,883 |
| 1900–1909 | 622 |
| 1910–1919 | 750 |
| 1920–1929 | 941 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,197 |
| 1940–1949 | 106 |
| 1950–1959 | 4 |
| 1960–1969 | 1 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 274 |
| Karl Viljak | 230 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 211 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 163 |
| Gustav Seen | 152 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 10,020)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 94., SKVR I1 100., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 111., SKVR I1 119., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 130., SKVR I1 535., SKVR I1 536., SKVR I4 709., SKVR I4 802., SKVR I4 813., SKVR I4 824., SKVR I4 849., SKVR I4 1120., SKVR I4 1123., SKVR I4 1219., SKVR I4 1244., SKVR I4 1913 a)., SKVR I4 1973., SKVR II 1073., SKVR II 1074., SKVR II 1226., SKVR II 1227., SKVR II 1359., SKVR II 1440., SKVR III1 3., SKVR III1 39., SKVR III1 56., SKVR III1 659., SKVR III1 698., SKVR III1 787., SKVR III1 893., SKVR III1 894., SKVR III1 916., SKVR III1 917., SKVR III1 936., SKVR III1 976., SKVR III2 1722., SKVR III2 1758., SKVR III2 1782., SKVR III2 1851., SKVR III2 2046., SKVR III2 2090., SKVR III2 2121., SKVR III2 2153., SKVR III2 2159., SKVR III2 2188., SKVR III2 2199., SKVR III2 2229., SKVR III2 2230., SKVR III2 2354., SKVR III2 2426., SKVR III2 2482., SKVR III2 2521., SKVR III2 2522., SKVR III2 2556., SKVR III3 2631.
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: vanha
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.