veikko
‘brother’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | brother |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,788 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,455, JR 1,332, KR 157 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
veikko, veikon, veikkoni, veikkoin, veikot, veijo, veikoi, veikkoi, veikolta, veikoin, veikkoani, veikkoasi, veio, veikkosi, veion, veikolleni, veikkojain, veijojani, veikkojani, veikkoo, veikolle, veijoani, veikkoa, veikollein, veikokseni, veikkoja, veikkoseini, veikkojasi, veikkon, veiollensa, veijoni, veikolleini, veikoksi, veikoll, veioani, weikko, weikon, veikkojaini, veikkonsa, veikka … and 167 more of 207 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 |
|---|---|---|
| brother (brother's, brothers, brothers') | 4,837 | 93.9% |
| lad (lad's, lads) | 224 | 4.3% |
| rogue (rogue's) | 66 | 1.3% |
| little | 37 | 0.7% |
| fellow (fellow's) | 25 | 0.5% |
| law (law's) | 19 | 0.4% |
| Uses counted | 5,152 |
Example verses
- ois on veikko ilmorinnon (SKVR I1 60.) read in context
- sano seppä veiollensa (SKVR I1 63 a).) read in context
The smith said to his companion: - sano seppä veiollensa (SKVR I1 63 b).) read in context
The smith says to his companion: - ois mun veikkoni omani (SKVR I1 108.) read in context
"If my own brother were here, - toisen taiton veiollani (SKVR I1 208.) read in context
Another for my brother-in-law, - iivanalle veiollensa (SKVR I1 210.) read in context
For Iivana, her suitor. - veio pääty veräjällä (SKVR I1 213.) read in context
He brought the end to the gate, - sitä iten veikko raukka (SKVR I1 216.) read in context
"I weep, poor brother:
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 |
|---|---|---|
| vaimo | 766 | 179 |
| vieras | 588 | 156 |
| hävitä | 439 | 59 |
| venäläinen | 414 | 74 |
| olkapää | 408 | 67 |
| mikä | 402 | 244 |
| tulla | 395 | 249 |
| vesi | 364 | 237 |
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).
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Moloskovitsa | 114 |
| Ilomantsi | 100 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 95 |
| Suojärvi | 95 |
| Suistamo | 95 |
| Toksova | 84 |
| Vuole | 76 |
| Kupanitsa | 68 |
| Uhtua | 66 |
| Sakkola | 59 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1700–1709 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 5 |
| 1810–1819 | 13 |
| 1820–1829 | 43 |
| 1830–1839 | 162 |
| 1840–1849 | 396 |
| 1850–1859 | 316 |
| 1860–1869 | 26 |
| 1870–1879 | 80 |
| 1880–1889 | 228 |
| 1890–1899 | 328 |
| 1900–1909 | 308 |
| 1910–1919 | 155 |
| 1920–1929 | 44 |
| 1930–1939 | 289 |
| 1940–1949 | 95 |
| 1950–1959 | 73 |
| 1960–1969 | 40 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 286 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 171 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 105 |
| J. Fr. Ruotsalainen | 85 |
| Frans Kärki | 78 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,610)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 60., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 213., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 227., SKVR I1 231., SKVR I1 231 a)., SKVR I1 239., SKVR I1 240., SKVR I1 243., SKVR I1 243 a)., SKVR I1 243 b)., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 353., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 447., SKVR I1 449., SKVR I1 449 a)., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 464., SKVR I1 473., SKVR I1 473 a)., SKVR I1 484 a)., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 491 a)., SKVR I1 492., SKVR I1 494., SKVR I1 504., SKVR I1 513., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpakosinta] 2., SKVR I2 816., SKVR I2 847., SKVR I2 854., SKVR I2 1009., SKVR I2 1011., SKVR I2 1012., SKVR I2 1023., SKVR I2 1064., SKVR I2 1065., SKVR I2 1076., SKVR I2 1085., SKVR I2 1086., SKVR I2 1087., SKVR I2 1089., SKVR I2 1091., SKVR I2 1093., SKVR I2 1094., SKVR I2 1095., SKVR I2 1144., SKVR I2 1146., SKVR I2 1148 a)., SKVR I2 1151., SKVR I2 1153., SKVR I2 1163., SKVR I2 1170.
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.