vene
‘boat’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun
| English gloss | boat |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 9,164 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,403, JR 2,221, KR 242 poems, ERAB 3,540 |
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
vene, venettä, venehen, veneh, venne, venehessä, venehestä, venoisen, veneen, venehin, venneen, venehellä, venoinen, venet, venei, wenettä, venehes, venoisessa, venoseh, ven, veneje, wene, veneheh, wenehen, veneellä, venehet, venest, veneessä, venehesen, venoisesta, veneheksi, venoisin, venehest, venekene, veneet, veneih, vened, venehess, veneheze, venosess … and 307 more of 347 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
vene
- venelastele v. Venemaale omane; venelaste loodud, venelastelt pärinev, venepärane
vene · 6
- ühest puust õõnestatud paat; kiiluta kaluripaat
Idamurre
vene
- paat
vene
- venelane
Seto
vene
- vene venet vene (keel)|
Moistatuste
vene
- ka: vääne
Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · Idamurde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut · Seto sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut · Mõistatuste murdesõnad
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 |
|---|---|---|
| boat (boat's, boats, boats') | 4,987 | 92.3% |
| russian (russians, russian's, russians') | 194 | 3.6% |
| russia (russia's) | 66 | 1.2% |
| brother (brother's, brothers', brothers) | 51 | 0.9% |
| little | 50 | 0.9% |
| like | 22 | 0.4% |
| venejä | 10 | 0.2% |
| veneitä | 9 | 0.2% |
| veneihin | 8 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 5,404 |
Example verses
- jo sieldä veneh tulouvi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
"From there a boat came," - venet täysi verkkoloita (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Boats full of nets, - teki tiijolla venettä (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Built a boat with wisdom, - venehet takeltuoho (SKVR I1 54.) read in context
Boats be entangled!" - venne väe vöörüvätä (AES, MT 117, 61 (17)) read in context
"The Russian army approaching," - veli võti venne naise (AES, MT 117, 63 (22)) read in context
The brother took a Russian wife, - kingin vened kingin vergud (AES, MT 141, 33) read in context
I gave boats, I gave oars, - venne väe veerivät (AES, MT 180, 1) read in context
The Russian force was rolling forth.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| veistää | 4,464 | 535 |
| vägi | 2,697 | 379 |
| soutaa | 2,483 | 468 |
| vuori | 2,000 | 361 |
| vuotava | 1,088 | 100 |
| vesi | 970 | 556 |
| venäläinen | 949 | 164 |
| veli | 789 | 438 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Laivaretki | 271 |
| Veneenveisto | 220 |
| Polvenhaava | 157 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 104 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 102 |
| Lunastettava neito | 99 |
| Kanteleen synty | 98 |
| Purren itku | 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 |
|---|---|
| Vuokkiniemi | 237 |
| Narvusi | 153 |
| Soikkola | 131 |
| Uhtua | 93 |
| Lempaala | 82 |
| Kontokki | 79 |
| Ilomantsi | 71 |
| Suojärvi | 59 |
| Suistamo | 59 |
| Sakkola | 57 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1700–1709 | 5 |
| 1760–1769 | 2 |
| 1780–1789 | 18 |
| 1800–1809 | 4 |
| 1810–1819 | 22 |
| 1820–1829 | 71 |
| 1830–1839 | 258 |
| 1840–1849 | 290 |
| 1850–1859 | 197 |
| 1860–1869 | 26 |
| 1870–1879 | 249 |
| 1880–1889 | 514 |
| 1890–1899 | 324 |
| 1900–1909 | 163 |
| 1910–1919 | 157 |
| 1920–1929 | 89 |
| 1930–1939 | 340 |
| 1940–1949 | 104 |
| 1950–1959 | 39 |
| 1960–1969 | 29 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 392 |
| Volmari Porkka | 158 |
| A. A. Borenius | 153 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 125 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 92 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,928)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 54., SKVR I1 55., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 95., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 154., SKVR I1 155., SKVR I1 159., SKVR I1 178., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 250 a)., SKVR I1 253 a)., SKVR I1 257., SKVR I1 259., SKVR I1 263., SKVR I1 265., SKVR I1 266., SKVR I1 268 a)., SKVR I1 271., SKVR I1 272., SKVR I1 275., SKVR I1 277., SKVR I1 279., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 282., SKVR I1 283., SKVR I1 285., SKVR I1 288., SKVR I1 291., SKVR I1 295., SKVR I1 297., SKVR I1 298 b)., SKVR I1 300., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 313., SKVR I1 315., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 331., SKVR I1 335., SKVR I1 336., SKVR I1 337.
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: venhe
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.
These spellings are left out of the Estonian verses and the counts, because in Estonian they are mostly another word: vene
The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.
In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 438
Uses left out as another word: 3,039
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0
In Finnish:
Uses shown on this page: 4,828
Uses left out as another word: 0
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0