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Suure-Jaani

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,306
Verses23,405
Distinct words17,479
Collection years1871–1939
CollectorsTõnis Köstner · Hans Siimer · Mart Saar
Coordinates58.4755, 25.3705

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
teene33
oedu9
sirinakesed6
teese20
piale34
ikki30
urmid6
tokikese6
tagat12
kamaterida5
needused5
needusida5
pannin23
luisku12
ollin22
lumipea7
rangiroomadesse8
kõrinakesed5
kõrtsikõlgaste6
kaapind6

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,306 poems collected in this place, 557 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 749 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). 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.

Vastemõisa v. (308)
Pärassaare (33)
Leetva (24)
Põhjaka (24)
Vene (21)
Epra (18)
Kibaru (17)
Kaansoo (15)
Järavere (11)
references naming only the commune
Sürgavere v. (109)
Kuiavere (5)
Kärevere (2)
Kookla (1)
references naming only the commune
Olustvere v. (73)
Kuhjavere (5)
Kereme (1)
references naming only the commune
Taevere v. (39)
Tamme (11)
Laane (4)
references naming only the commune
Suure-Jaani v. (20)
Lahmuse (10)
references naming only the commune
Jaska v. (4)
Vändra v. (2)
Abja v. (1)
Jaani v. (?) (1)
Karula v. (1)
Also recorded at Viljandi (5).
Pärassaare v. (1)
Perassaare (39)
Pasaküla (4)
Kildi (1)
Välgita (1)
Võivaku kõrts (1)
Imma m. (7)
Vastemõisa m. (5)
Olustvere m. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (749)

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.