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Tõstamaa

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,879
Verses39,120
Distinct words23,009
Collection years1875–1943
CollectorsJakob Weltmann · Otto (Saarsalu, Ott) Schantz (Schants) · Gustav Anniko
Coordinates58.2975, 24.0310

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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
mede217
tänd48
ati50
ond33
oinapraadi26
tede47
att43
kalast30
liitu25
pusime18
nooruke45
tallepraadi26
keelepäras11
kaada20
tapame27
kuulatama31
suitsus20
atil17
tõstamaa11
memmeke26

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,879 poems collected in this place, 1,508 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 371 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); al. = alevik (small borough); l. = linn (town). 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.

Pootsi v. (576)
Also recorded at Audru (44).
Tominga t. (18)
references naming only the commune
Tõstamaa v. (415)
Tõhela (84)
Kastna (39)
Ranniku (31)
Kiraste (16)
Täoste (7)
Lahe (5)
Ädaste (5)
Lao (4)
Lälaste (4)
Häidaste (3)
Suti (3)
Vihakse (3)
Värati (3)
Alu (2)
Ermistu (2)
Pootsi (2)
Sepa (2)
Metsküla (4)
Lõuka krjm (2)
Päraküla (2)
Männikuste k (1)
Tõstamaa al. (24)
references naming only the commune
Seliste v. (396)
Kavaru (12)
Metsa (6)
Püti (5)
Kõpu (3)
Vihaksi (1)
Ruusi (25)
Peraküla (14)
Pootsi Jäänu (6)
Karuga kõrts (2)
Murruste (1)
Pootsi Keldremaa (1)
Pootsi Kilgimetsa (1)
references naming only the commune
Kihnu v. (90)
Seli-Pootsi v. (48)
Audru v. (26)
Marksa (14)
Karuga (11)
references naming only the commune
Audru Seli v. (26)
Liu (26)
Also recorded at Audru (2).
Kastna v. (8)
Riidamaa (8)
Pootsi-Metsküla v. (1)
Seli-Rootsi v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 3 records)
Koti (2)
Leetsari (1)
Järve (2)
Karuga-Kõrtsi (2)
Pärnu l. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (371)

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.