virsi
‘song; hymn’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | song; hymn |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,536 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,863, JR 1,673, KR 206 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
virren, virttä, virret, virsi, virsiä, virteni, virsii, virsut, virsun, virs, virre, wirren, virsillä, virsu, wirttä, virrekseni, virrein, virsissä, virtein, wirret, virsistä, virtten, virsille, virreksein, virressä, virsiäin, virsiänsä, wirsi, virsiäni, virrellä, virsien, virten, virrestä, virsiksi, virsuja, virrekseini, virdeni, virressäni, virsiin, virsilleni … and 148 more of 188 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 |
|---|---|---|
| song (song's, songs, songs') | 4,386 | 67.1% |
| hymn (hymn's, hymns) | 1,948 | 29.8% |
| verse (verses) | 127 | 1.9% |
| poem (poem's) | 96 | 1.5% |
| stream (streams) | 31 | 0.5% |
| Uses counted | 6,541 |
Example verses
- viittä virren kommermoista (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Five secret verses' depths." - virren ponto polvuhinen (SKVR I1 51.) read in context
- virren porras polvuhini (SKVR I1 62.) read in context
- väinän virttä kuulomah (SKVR I1 117.) read in context
To hear Väinö’s song, - väinön virttä kuulemahan (SKVR I1 117 c).) read in context
To hear Väinö's song. - virren porras polvuhini (SKVR I1 125.) read in context
Song's step to my knees. - virren portto polvehuini (SKVR I1 131 a).) read in context
- virsillä i viisahampi (SKVR I1 157.) read in context
Whose verses hold more wisdom,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| laulaa | 4,058 | 731 |
| veisata | 1,673 | 178 |
| työnnellä | 951 | 83 |
| työ | 671 | 156 |
| vetää | 575 | 152 |
| vielä | 574 | 172 |
| okelmo | 544 | 56 |
| väärin | 521 | 68 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Laulajan alkusanoja | 151 |
| Runoreki | 110 |
| Kyllä on miulla virtosia | 107 |
| Laulajan lopetussanoja | 93 |
| Silloin laulan, konsa joudan | 93 |
| Virsikerä | 90 |
| Laulajan palkka | 84 |
| Laulan yheksän yötä | 66 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Lempaala | 179 |
| Narvusi | 139 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 129 |
| Vuole | 115 |
| Sakkola | 105 |
| Ilomantsi | 89 |
| Suistamo | 75 |
| Uhtua | 68 |
| Metsäpirtti | 66 |
| Tyrö | 54 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 4 |
| 1700–1709 | 9 |
| 1710–1719 | 1 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 3 |
| 1760–1769 | 3 |
| 1780–1789 | 6 |
| 1800–1809 | 4 |
| 1810–1819 | 26 |
| 1820–1829 | 55 |
| 1830–1839 | 226 |
| 1840–1849 | 367 |
| 1850–1859 | 340 |
| 1860–1869 | 49 |
| 1870–1879 | 120 |
| 1880–1889 | 292 |
| 1890–1899 | 385 |
| 1900–1909 | 222 |
| 1910–1919 | 218 |
| 1920–1929 | 65 |
| 1930–1939 | 368 |
| 1940–1949 | 63 |
| 1950–1959 | 62 |
| 1960–1969 | 54 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 333 |
| A. D. Neovius | 151 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 128 |
| A. A. Borenius | 98 |
| Fr. A. Saxbäck | 85 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,946)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 117 c)., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 131 a)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 173., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 280., SKVR I1 280 a)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 353., SKVR I1 357., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 362 a)., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 382., SKVR I1 392., SKVR I1 393., SKVR I1 394., SKVR I1 395., SKVR I1 397., SKVR I1 398., SKVR I1 399., SKVR I1 401., SKVR I1 401 a)., SKVR I1 402., SKVR I1 403., SKVR I1 403 a)., SKVR I1 404., SKVR I1 408., SKVR I1 410., SKVR I1 410 a)., SKVR I1 414., SKVR I1 416., SKVR I1 418., SKVR I1 420., SKVR I1 422., SKVR I1 423., SKVR I1 425., SKVR I1 426., SKVR I1 427., SKVR I1 429., SKVR I1 432., SKVR I1 538., SKVR I1 589., SKVR I1 591., SKVR I1 604., SKVR I1 611., SKVR I1 621., SKVR I1 622 a).
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.