värav

‘gate’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	gate
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,141
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,141

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

värava, väravad, väravas, väravasse, väravast, värav, väravasta, värati, värave, väravid, väravassa, verävä, värä, väraval, väravi, väraja, väravaid, vära, väravalle, väräjä, väravale, väravista, väravisse, veräväd, värate, väravis, väravalla, värädi, verävällä, värat, väravate, väräväd, väradi, väräve, väravat, värävista, värävä, väravalta, värävis, verävälle … and 164 more of 204 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

värav · -a 2

1. müüris, aias v. seinas olev tarind, mis võimaldab sisse- ja väljapääsu (hrl. ka veokiga); ka ava selle tarindi jaoks
2. eraldi olev väravataoline tarind
3. (sportmängudes:) kahest postist, neid ühendavast põiklatist ja väravavõrgust koosnev tarind, kuhu vastasvõistkond püüab lüüa palli v. litrit

Idamurre

värav

viljaredel

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
gate (gates, gate's, gates')	5,494	97.0%
color	32	0.6%
fence	20	0.4%
little	14	0.2%
trembling	14	0.2%
shimmerer	13	0.2%
gatepost	12	0.2%
Uses counted	5,661

Example verses

lahti laiemad väravad (AES, MT 3, 22) read in context
Open wider the gates,
tere vaskised väravad (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Hail, copper gates,
memme viidi väratista (AES, MT 34, 1/3) read in context
Mother was led through the gate,
mii vära katski (AES, MT 40, 20 (24)) read in context
What broke the crooked [fence]?
väina või värate alla kaske (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
Under the river or gates, oh birch,
kultse jultse viiritse värave (AES, MT 43, 77) read in context
Golden, golden, variegated gates.
jultse kultse viiritse värave (AES, MT 43, 91/2) read in context
Golden, adorned, striped gates?
esä ai ussõ värehist (AES, MT 44, 1) read in context
Father, oh, from the snake dens,

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
kuldne	3,861	552
juuli	1,528	145
viinasoon	1,075	83
vaskne	1,037	133
võru	1,028	116
välitse	1,019	93
pöör	956	89
väänama	923	126

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
Oma ema ja võõrasema ootavad koju	121
Väravamäng	95
Tule mulle	89
Tule mulle!	89
Mardilaul	71
Oleks see mees minu!	69
Venna sõjalugu	63
Oma ja võõrasema ootavad koju	59

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Kuusalu	185
Kolga-Jaani	153
Haljala	141
Tõstamaa	107
Ambla	96
Kadrina	94
Pärnu-Jaagupi	80
Karksi	80
Vigala	77
Viljandi	74

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	3
1840–1849	6
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	24
1870–1879	228
1880–1889	877
1890–1899	1,017
1900–1909	238
1910–1919	307
1920–1929	298
1930–1939	310
1940–1949	21

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	151
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	133
Karl Viljak	115
Oskar Philipp Kallas	109
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	78

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,543)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 22, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 34, 1/3, AES, MT 40, 20 (24), AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 77, AES, MT 43, 91/2, AES, MT 44, 1, AES, MT 44, 1, AES, MT 49, 17/8 (7), AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 58, 6/7, AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 141, 16/17, AES, MT 141, 28, AES, MT 204, 56/7, AES MT 210, 15/20, ARS 1, 401/2 (4), ARS 1, 460/1 (3), ARS 1, 476/7 (4), ARS 1, 519/23 (1), ARS 1, 637 (3), ARS 1, 659 (2), ARS 2, 606 (14), E A 9 (13), E A 11 (17), E A 24/5 (6), E A 31 (13), E A 34 (54), E A 41/2 (70), E A 57 (101), E A 59/60 (108), E A 105/6 (8), E A 124 (5), E A 171/2 (1), E A 172/4 (2), E A 178/80 (4), E A 180/2 (5), E A 185/8 (7), E A 213/4 (10), E A 252/3 (17), E A 298/300 (12), E A 358 (4), E A 377/8 (8), E A 381 (12), E A 383 (14), E A 386/7, E A 399 (6), E A 437/9 (3), E A 588/90 (12), E A 617/8 (3), E A 635 (6), E A 637/9 (8), E A 685/6 (6), E A 705/6 (1), E A 707/8, E A 715/7, E A 721/2 (1), E A 722/5 (2), E A 728/30 (4)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: veräjä

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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.