tuoss' on sulle tulppa suuhun

SKVR IX4 68·Pihtipudas·1890·Collector: Gummerus, J. ja Ranni

In the SKVR edition: Pihtip. Gummerus ja Ranni 1015. 90.

SKVR textEnglish

Ettei lapset itke:

Heti synnyntäsijalla käännetään kasvot itäänpäin ja äiti painaa suun päälle kolmasti vasemmalla kantapäällä, sanoen:

1"tuoss' on sulle tulppa suuhun,"There is a stopper for your mouth,"

2kapu kieles kantimiin;"a prop for your tongue, for the roots;"

3ite minä riijen rikon,"I myself break the quarrel,"

4ite minä sätkän sären;"I myself snap the twig;"

5ei oo riijen rikkomista"there is no breaking of the quarrel,"

6eikä sätkän särkemistä;"nor snapping of the twig;"

7terve maa, terve manner,"Hail earth, hail firm ground,"

8terve tälle terveyttäjälle;"hail to this health-bringer;"

9maa allas kuin maito,"earth beneath like milk,"

10taivas päälläs kuin kupar.""sky above like copper."

English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.

The text is that of the SKVR digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), with these changes:

The edition’s line numbers are replaced by a number on every verse, counted as in the poem reader.

Source

Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Added by RunoVerse: the English translations, the song types, the verse numbers and the links.