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Paistu

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems2,591
Verses60,390
Distinct words35,324
Collection years1866–1942
CollectorsMihkel Veske · Oskar Loorits · Jaan Leppik (Leppik-Punabu)
Coordinates58.2186, 25.5930

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
näiu166
läits140
ennekene165
sõtsi121
lätsi180
emä175
esä129
mede144
üits97
ehen72
mõtsa144
usse109
kodun90
ellä91
kosti98
kaala108
siss70
jemä27
tääsi43
koduja51

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,591 poems collected in this place, 1,696 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 895 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: v. = vald (commune); t. = talu (farm); m. = mõis (manor); as. = asundus (settlement); al. = alevik (small borough). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Holstre v. (916)
Pirmastu (50)
Koigu (40)
Liuguli (28)
Tänassilma (16)
Ravila (12)
Raasilla (3)
Utsu (1)
Uisasoo (18)
Kulli (9)
Lepiku (1)
references naming only the commune
Heimtali v. (253)
Tuhalaane v. (176)
Pahuvere (43)
Orjatu (13)
Veneküla (10)
Loisu järve otsas (8)
Paluvere al. (8)
references naming only the commune
Õisu v. (101)
Kõõni (1)
Kildi talu (1)
Morna as. (8)
Õisu m. (1)
Sultsi al. (2)
references naming only the commune
Aidu v. (78)
Also recorded at Viljandi (2).
Kundsu t. (1)
references naming only the commune
Loodi v. (70)
Kaarli v. (39)
Kuninga t. (5)
references naming only the commune
Paistu v. (20)
Vardi v. (10)
Oisu v. (2)
Pahuvere v. (1)
Pärsti v. (1)
Raudna v. (1)
Viiratsi v. (1)
Holstre jm (31)
Poems with no finer place recorded (895)

Sample verses with parallels in other places

Verses recorded here whose close parallels appear in poems from other collection places — a trace of the shared oral tradition.