Kirvu

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

Tradition	Finnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems	669
Verses	4,116
Distinct words	5,910
Collection years	1816–1964
Collectors	Suomalainen, Johannes, Kirvun Tietävälän nuorisoseuran arkisto
Coordinates	61.0949, 29.3906

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

Word	Occurrences
mie	73
sie	49
lallima	8
tallima	8
messää	12
kottii	22
kopo	7
kussuttii	4
jouluks	11
vissat	5
makkaa	15
suntain	6
mei	9
isse	7
ko	16
kapakkaa	7
meijän	25
varpoi	10
nukkumaa	8
lukon	14

Villages and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 669 poems collected in this place, 332 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 337 records give no finer place, or one of a kind this list does not cover. The counts reflect how often collectors wrote an address down, not how much was sung. Names are shown as written on the records, so they span different eras’ commune divisions; a place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from, and a name marked (?) was uncertain in the record itself. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Tietävälä (139)