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Tuuti, tuuti, tuomenkukka, eipä tiiä emo rukka

Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus

In English: Tuuti, tuuti, bird-cherry blossom — the poor mother knows not (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems124
Verses774
Collection places65
Collected1840s to 1930s
CollectorsForsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Olavi Pennanen · Toini Kohvakka · Samuli Paulaharju · A. D. Neovius · Toini Kantele · Sulo Haltsonen · A. O. Väisänen · Väinö Salminen · Kerttu Luukkonen

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The archive’s description

Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.

Tuuti tuuti tuomenkukka (Tuonen tukka), eipä tiedä emo rukka, missä lapset lauleloovat. Jatkosäkeinä joskus (VI, XII) lorumaista sanaleikittelyä: meren rannalla, kiven päällä, sukka putos, kenkä katos, mene mamma etsimään; joskus >Kelle tuutinen tytärtä, kelle poikaa -aihelmia (V, VII, XIII). Alkusäkeinä toisinaan muita kehtolaulukliseitä: Mie laulan lapselleni; Nuku nuku nurminukka.

* Ainoastaan alkusäe tai sen kehitelmä (Tuuti tuuti tuomenkukka, pellol on petäjän kukka, mesimarja meijän kukka ym), jolloin hyvin lähellä >Nuku, nuku nurmennukka -aihetta.

Where it was collected

Collection places of the poems, with the number of poems of this type from each. A place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from.

…and 5 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1840s1
1850s1
1870s1
1880s9
1890s29
1900s10
1910s30
1920s10
1930s33

Example poems

The opening verse of one poem from each of the ten places with the most poems of this type: the first such poem in the archive’s order. Each links to the whole poem. A poem can be filed under several types, so its opening verse may belong to another song.

Other types the same poems are filed under

The archive can file one poem under several types. These are the types most often given to poems of this type, with the number of poems they share.

TypePoems in common
Kelle tuutinen tytärtä, mihin poikaa7
Uni ulkoa kysyy3
Nuku, nuku, nurmennukka3
Poika synty, polte synty; tyttö synty, tyhjä synty2
Varis vaikku vainiolta2
Uni uuhella ajavi2
Aa aa, akana2
Heija, houva, Hermikkiä2
Älä äiti ennen kuole kuin kelkassa vedetään2

Content-based similar types

Several methods each rank the song types whose poems resemble this type's poems; the combined ranking merges their lists. The first 20 are listed here.

  1. Nuku, nuku, nurmennukka (Sleep, sleep, little meadow-flower (lullaby))
  2. Makaa marja, lepää lintu (Sleep, my berry; rest, my bird (lullaby))
  3. Ei tiedä emo kussa lapsi lauleleepi (Mother knows not where her child sings)
  4. Ei tiedä tekijä vaimo, mikä lapsesta tulee (The mother knows not what the child will become)
  5. Suvun surja, heimon herja (Bane of the family, disgrace of the clan)
  6. Tuuti tuuti tuomenmarja (Lullaby, bird cherry berry)
  7. Tule tuutuhun unonen (Come, little sleep, to the cradle)
  8. Laulan lapselleni, lirittelen linnulleni (I sing to my child, I trill to my little bird)
  9. Kun poika (piika) pahoin - hyvin tekee (When Servant Does Ill or Well)
  10. Käsi on lyöty kätkyessä (Hand struck in the cradle)
  11. Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu (Sleep, sleep, meadow bird (lullaby))
  12. Laulelen lahoissa näissä (Singing in these rotten ruins)
  13. Makaa uni makia (The sweet sleep lingers)
  14. Kelle tuutinen tytärtä, mihin poikaa (For whom I rock my daughter, where my son)
  15. Tuuti tuuti tukkapäätä (Lull the tousle-headed child)
  16. Kis kis kippurahäntä (Here Kitty, Curly-Tail)
  17. Kuret soilla, miehet mailla, kälykset kananmunilla (riitelevät) (Cranes on the bogs, men afield, in-laws quarreling over eggs)
  18. Tuttima tuttima mamma rukka (Tuttima Tuttima, Poor Mother)
  19. Laulan liki kotia (I sing close to home)
  20. Näin kerran mieki unta (Once I too had a dream)

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the SKVR type index of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS); the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.