võtma

‘take’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	take
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	36,697
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 36,695

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

võta, võtsin, võti, võttis, võtab, võtta, võtt, võtan, võtnud, võttemaie, võtsid, võtke, võtku, võtma, võtad, võtti, võeti, võtaks, võtin, võtid, võetud, võtis, võttamaie, võtemaie, võts, võe, võtsi, võtnu, võttemassa, võtam, võttemata, võttin, võt, võtame, võtit, võttemas, votta, võttema, vota, võeta … and 551 more of 591 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

võtma · võtan, võetakse, võetud 47

1. enda kätte (suhu, nokka, küünte vahele vms.) v. kättesaadavusse toimetama
2. enda kasutusse, omandusse v. valdusse toimetama
3. salvestama, talletama
4. (mõõtmise, arvestamise, hindamise jms. kohta)

(+13)

Idamurre

võtma

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
take (took, taken, takes, taking)	60,893	97.9%
key	1,070	1.7%
let (let's)	343	0.6%
untaken	197	0.3%
while	85	0.1%
Uses counted	62,222

Example verses

poegadelle võtab naised (AES, MT 3, 7 (22)) read in context
takes wives for sons.
võtin võtin naise nuore (AES, MT 3, 7 (23)) read in context
I took, I took a young wife,
kui sa ei võta mulle naista (AES, MT 3, 8 (24)) read in context
If you don't get me a wife,
võtan uole õrrelta (AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27)) read in context
Take the spindle from the straw,
sie võtku tema omale mua emakene (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
Let her claim them for herself, my dear mother.
aidast võtan uue kuue (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
From the storehouse, I take a new coat,
naine nuar jäi võttemata (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
The young woman remained untaken,
naine nuor jäi võttemata (AES, MT 3, 14) read in context
The young woman remained untaken,

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
naine	18,911	4,648
võrk	6,130	834
kinni	4,091	928
look	3,510	684
kust	2,742	745
vastu	2,737	1,261
võti	2,141	355
pealt	2,004	699

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
Kust laulud saadud	408
Laulu võim	397
Põlvist põdema	365
Arg kosilane	343
Tõbine naine	343
Kust laulud	299
Mardilaul	281
Öösel üksi	232

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	1,135
Karksi	791
Paistu	710
Halliste	621
Haljala	601
Kolga-Jaani	582
Tarvastu	574
Kuusalu	567
Viljandi	543
Helme	499

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1640–1649	1
1800–1809	1
1820–1829	33
1830–1839	5
1840–1849	21
1850–1859	14
1860–1869	197
1870–1879	1,539
1880–1889	4,762
1890–1899	5,725
1900–1909	1,467
1910–1919	1,512
1920–1929	1,979
1930–1939	2,648
1940–1949	149
1950–1959	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	663
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	498
Karl Viljak	435
Oskar Philipp Kallas	328
Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)	297

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 21,386)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 7 (22), AES, MT 3, 7 (23), AES, MT 3, 8 (24), AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 14, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 18, AES, MT 3, 20, AES, MT 3, 21, AES, MT 3, 21/2, AES, MT 22, 5, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 27, 32/4, AES, MT 34, 1/3, AES, MT 34, 8, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 8 (11), AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 21/2 (26), AES, MT 40, 26 (35), AES, MT 40, 27/8 (37), AES, MT 40, 28/9 (39), AES, MT 40, 31 (42), AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 53, AES, MT 43, 55, AES, MT 43, 61/2, AES, MT 43, 69, AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 43, 72, AES, MT 43, 76, AES, MT 43, 77, AES, MT 43, 78/9, AES, MT 43, 86, AES, MT 43, 88, AES, MT 44, 2, AES, MT 44, 2/3, AES, MT 44, 3, AES, MT 44, 4/5, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 49, 10/1 (2), AES, MT 49, 20/1 (9), AES, MT 54, 3 (4), AES, MT 54, 5/8 (8), AES, MT 54, 9/10, AES, MT 57, 1, AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 60, 33/5 (21), AES, MT 60, 37 (28), AES, MT 62, 11 (2), AES, MT 64, 24, AES, MT 64, 25, AES, MT 65, 12/3, AES, MT 65, 14, AES, MT 66, 4/6, AES, MT 66, 6, AES, MT 66, 10/12

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: ottaa

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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.