veer

‘edge’ · runosong lemma · Estonian noun

English gloss	edge
Part of speech	noun
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,926
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,926

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

veere, veerest, veereh, veerde, veerele, veeru, veerta, veerel, viirt, veertä, veerte, veeretes, veerus, veereni, veari, veerelt, veeresta, veeretele, viird, vierde, viirdõ, veert, veer, veerul, veeriks, veerist, veers, veerile, veerke, veerellä, veeril, veerule, vierta, veerdeje, veerdele, veereke, veerelegi, veeresse, veermest, veertes … and 29 more of 69 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

veer · -e, -t 35

serv, äär. a. (territooriumi, ala kohta:) piirjoon, sellega vahetult külgnev ala

veer · -u 22

1. negatiivse pinnavormi (oru, lohu, nõo) kallak külg; (üldkeeles ka:) mäe, künka vms. kallak külg, nõlv
2. loojak

Idamurre

veer

äär

veer

kallak
loojang

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
edge (edge's, edges)	5,628	64.1%
roll (rolls, rolled)	2,984	34.0%
slope	47	0.5%
little	35	0.4%
turn	26	0.3%
side	22	0.3%
flow	17	0.2%
shore	15	0.2%
pour	11	0.1%
beside	10	0.1%
Uses counted	8,777

Example verses

elu ilma veere pääle (AES, MT 34, 4) read in context
On the rim of the living world,
tsirgu tsäükse veere pääl (AES, MT 34, 8) read in context
A crane-sack dangled at the edge,
sau saarõ veere pääle (AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9)) read in context
To the edge of Sau island.
joogõm iks viina vii veereh (AES, MT 40, 18 (21)) read in context
Let’s drink wine at the water’s edge,
nigu osa ua veereh (AES, MT 40, 24 (31)) read in context
uma veere virvekese (AES, MT 40, 32 (43)) read in context
Our rim's little wave,
üte vii veere pääl (AES, MT 54, 1/2 (2)) read in context
On the same water's edge
säe sängü veere pääle (AES, MT 54, 5/8 (8)) read in context
Arrange on the bed's edge

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
peale	4,036	1,025
päevake	1,387	146
peal	1,121	316
vend	688	270
istuma	682	165
ks	667	307
vesi	654	311
väike	598	127

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
Palve sakstele	86
Ema haual	82
Veere venna juurde	74
Veere, päev	68
Venna sõjalugu	49
Harja otsimine	45
Laulu võim	41
Neiu linn	37

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	686
Karksi	224
Paistu	175
Räpina	168
Tarvastu	139
Halliste	131
Helme	119
Vastseliina	101
Rõuge	76
Viljandi	76

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	1
1840–1849	1
1860–1869	73
1870–1879	283
1880–1889	559
1890–1899	749
1900–1909	190
1910–1919	114
1920–1929	342
1930–1939	512
1940–1949	35

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Jakob Jagomann	153
Joosep Hurt	120
Anna Tammeorg	54
Jaan Sandra	52
Leena Kase (Kaur)	49

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,021)

ERAB: AES, MT 34, 4, AES, MT 34, 8, AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9), AES, MT 40, 18 (21), AES, MT 40, 24 (31), AES, MT 40, 32 (43), AES, MT 54, 1/2 (2), AES, MT 54, 5/8 (8), AES, MT 54, 8/9 (10), AES, MT 64, 32/3, AES, MT 70, 35, AES, MT 102, 21 (3), AES, MT 102, 24, (3), AES, MT 102, 32 (2), AES, MT 117, 53/4 (4), AES, MT 141, 18/20, AES, MT 180, 7 (a), AES, MT 183, 13, AES, MT 186, 113/5, AES, MT 205, 31, AES, MT 205, 36, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES, MT 236, 43/4, AES, MT 236, 60, AES, MT 257, 8/10, AES, MT 257, 23/5, ARS 1, 388/91 (2), ARS 1, 428/9 (7), ARS 1, 461/3 (4), ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 512/6 (3), ARS 1, 527/31 (1), ARS 1, 633/5 (2), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), ARS 2, 47/65 (7), ARS 2, 314/5 (82), E A 156/62 (4), E A 205/7 (1), E A 298/300 (12), E A 302 (15), E A 303/7, E A 308/14 (2), E A 328/9 (14), E A 334 (19), E A 358 (4), E A 376/7 (5), E A 400/1 (7), E A 428 (5), E A 446/7 (10), E A 456/7 (2), E A 477/81 (2), E A 549 (7), E A 587 (10), E A 684 (4), E A 700 (17), E A 780/2 (15), E A 1005/6 (5), EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 2/3, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 3/6p (13), EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 6, l. 8p (2)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: vieri

← vastata veerema →

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.