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veri

‘blood’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish noun

English glossblood
Part of speechnoun
LanguageEstonian and Finnish
Total occurrences14,258
By corpusSKVR 6,779, JR 3,531, KR 324 poems, ERAB 3,948

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

veri, verta, veren, verda, vere, verd, veret, veressä, verega, ver, vert, verest, vereni, weri, verestä, verellä, verdä, veres, weren, verin, werta, veristä, verele, verren, vereen, verenä, verä, verret, veriä, verj, veresse, vereville, verriisen, veresi, verillä, verde, verehen, verensä, verissä, verreis … and 220 more of 260 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

veri · vere 13

Idamurre

veri

Seto

veri

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 wordUsesShare
blood (blood's, bloods)19,83398.3%
bloody1470.7%
measure400.2%
water290.1%
Uses counted20,184

Example verses

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.

WordAssociation (G²)Co-occurrences
seisoa8,0881,274
vuotaa7,121884
niinkuin3,441630
seinä2,748512
tyyni1,598243
nisa974134
silmä904380
vesi862607

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 typePoems
Verensulku1,211
Raudan sanat304
Raudan synty267
Hiiri metsähän menevi262
Venna sõjalugu216
Sõjalaul147
Polvenhaava146
Müüdud neiu125

Collection places

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

PlacePoems
Setumaa357
Narvusi262
Suistamo200
Soikkola193
Vuokkiniemi184
Lempaala125
Ilomantsi117
Kuusalu101
Kontokki90
Räpina82

Attestation over time

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

DecadePoems
1610–16191
1650–16595
1660–16691
1670–16791
1690–169914
1700–170914
1730–17392
1750–17593
1760–17696
1770–17795
1780–178932
1800–180916
1810–181985
1820–1829136
1830–1839285
1840–1849373
1850–1859366
1860–186985
1870–1879406
1880–18891,715
1890–18991,431
1900–1909685
1910–1919817
1920–1929434
1930–19391,312
1940–1949261
1950–1959120
1960–1969155

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

CollectorPoems
Elias Lönnrot458
Kaarle Krohn337
Volmari Porkka255
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori162
Samuli Paulaharju137
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 8,952)
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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.