võõras
‘strange; foreign’ · runosong lemma · Estonian adjective
| English gloss | strange; foreign |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Estonian |
| Total occurrences | 5,133 |
| By corpus | SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,129 |
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
võeras, võõras, võera, võõra, võerad, võeraste, vueras, võõrad, võeraaksi, võerast, võõrast, võõraste, võeral, võõral, võõnu, võõrile, võerasta, võeraalle, võeraks, võõgas, veeras, võõreesse, vuerad, võeraid, võeralt, võeraida, võerastelle, võõraid, vööras, võerale, voera, võeraad, võõrale, võõrit, vuera, võõraesse, võõrid, võeraksi, võerastele, võõraaksi … and 172 more of 212 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
võõras · võõra 20
- 1. selline, kellest v. millest mitte midagi ei teata, keda v. mida ei tunta, tundmatu
- 2. kellelegi teisele kuuluv, teise oma
- 3. see, keda ei tunta, tundmatu
- 4. (hrl. vananevas pruugis:) külaline
Idamurre
võõras
- külaline
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 |
|---|---|---|
| stranger (stranger's, strangers, strangers') | 5,155 | 71.0% |
| strange (strange's) | 1,037 | 14.3% |
| foreign | 679 | 9.4% |
| guest (guests) | 295 | 4.1% |
| strangely | 34 | 0.5% |
| abroad | 12 | 0.2% |
| võõras | 12 | 0.2% |
| foreigner | 11 | 0.2% |
| hostile | 11 | 0.2% |
| Uses counted | 7,256 |
Example verses
- sinna tuli siiski pailu võeraid (AES, MT 3, 26) read in context
Yet many guests came there, - sain ma vällä võeraalle (AES, MT 4, 1) read in context
I was taken to strangers, - võõras mul iks ütli lõika lõika (AES, MT 40, 10/1 (15)) read in context
A stranger told me: "Cut, cut!" - sa lääd võõra maide sisse (AES, MT 43, 56/7) read in context
You go into foreign lands, - sain aga välja võera juure (AES, MT 62, 17) read in context
But I reached a stranger's domain, - võõras nenne võegas nenne (AES, MT 88, 39) read in context
Stranger here, intruder here, - võeras ütles võta naene (AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1)) read in context
A stranger said: "Take a wife," - öiu vöiu vööras rahvas (AES, MT 174, 40) read in context
O night-force, foreign folk,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| võigas | 1,706 | 135 |
| võtma | 1,254 | 447 |
| vara | 939 | 217 |
| võnnu | 843 | 109 |
| rahvas | 730 | 149 |
| või | 635 | 207 |
| ema | 535 | 238 |
| võll | 517 | 62 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Oma ema ja võõrasema ootavad koju | 190 |
| Ema haual | 124 |
| Vara vaeslapseks | 101 |
| Oma ja võõrasema ootavad koju | 96 |
| Venna sõjalugu | 65 |
| Vara vaeseks | 61 |
| Noorik kodu käimas | 57 |
| Sõjalaul | 49 |
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 | 131 |
| Kuusalu | 103 |
| Karksi | 97 |
| Haljala | 84 |
| Paistu | 66 |
| Kadrina | 66 |
| Tõstamaa | 61 |
| Räpina | 59 |
| Helme | 56 |
| Ambla | 56 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1820–1829 | 6 |
| 1830–1839 | 1 |
| 1840–1849 | 2 |
| 1850–1859 | 3 |
| 1860–1869 | 21 |
| 1870–1879 | 204 |
| 1880–1889 | 586 |
| 1890–1899 | 735 |
| 1900–1909 | 165 |
| 1910–1919 | 209 |
| 1920–1929 | 261 |
| 1930–1939 | 287 |
| 1940–1949 | 15 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 73 |
| Karl Viljak | 67 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 67 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 54 |
| Jakob Jagomann | 48 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 2,657)
- ERAB: AES, MT 3, 26, AES, MT 4, 1, AES, MT 40, 10/1 (15), AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 62, 17, AES, MT 88, 39, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1), AES, MT 174, 40, AES, MT 205, 11/6, AES, MT 205, 18/9, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES, MT 230, 16/7, AES, MT 236, 29/30, ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), E A 6 (7), E A 6/7 (8), E A 59 (107), E A 105/6 (8), E A 119/20, E A 121/2 (5), E A 185/8 (7), E A 210/1 (8), E A 289/90 (47), E A 336 (22), E A 385/6, E A 402/3 (9), E A 432/5 (1), E A 444 (7), E A 551/2 (11), E A 584/6 (6), E A 590/2 (13), E A 670/1 (5), E A 740/1, E A 769/70 (2), E A 806 (17), E A 808/9 (3), E A 823/5 (3), E A 832/5 (10), E A 853 (1), E A 867/9 (13), E A 901 (6), E A 913/4 (25), E A 970/4 (8), EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 163-164, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 164, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 169-170, EKLA, f. 199, m. 5: 1, l. 171, EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 3/6p (12), EKLA, f. 47, m. 28: 25, l. 7/18, EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 6, l. 10 (8), EKLA, f. 51, m. 28: 15, l. 11p, EKmS 4° 1, 10 (11), EKmS 4° 1, 69 (95), EKmS 4° 1, 73 (102), EKmS 4° 1, 133 (205), EKmS 4° 1, 136/7 (210), EKmS 4° 1, 174 (270), EKmS 4° 1, 188/9 (290), EKmS 4° 1, 418/9 (22)
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: vieras
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.