sebe

sèbé

1. African fan palm, Borassus aethiopum

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• Rhymes: -ɛbɛ

sebe

1. (genitive, accusative, reflexive) oneself
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

• “sebe”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

From Latin saepem (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseβe̝/

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. hedge, fence

   Synonym: tapaxe

   • 1316, Miguel Romaní Martinez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, volume 2, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 32:

     acharon no herdamento desa grana de Lamas estaquas chantadas et divisoes feytas et sebes deribadas

     they found, in the lands of that farm of Lamas, grounded stakes and divisions and overthrown hedges

• sebeiro (“hedge”)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sebe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sebe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sebe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sebe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

seb (“wound, injury”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

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• Hyphenation: se‧be

sebe

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of seb

sebe inan

1. alternative form of séip (“river”)
   • 1769, Ezra Stiles, Notes on Narragansett Indian Vocabulary‎, Yale University Beinecke Library, Local record 1769.09.06.00, OID 11413743, pages 2 (24):

     River Sepe or Sebe

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• William Cowan (1973) “Narragansett 126 years after”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 39, number 1, →ISSN, page 10
• James Hammond Trumbull (1903) “sépu, séip, seep”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 148

Inherited from Latin saepem.

• Hyphenation: se‧be

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. hedge (thicket of bushes planted in a row)

   Synonyms: barda, cerca viva

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• IPA^(key): /sêbe/
• Hyphenation: se‧be

sȅbe (Cyrillic spelling се̏бе)

1. oneself (reflexive pronoun)
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sebě.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛbɛ/

sebe

1. dative/locative of seba

   Kupujem si topánky. ― I am buying me shoes.

   Komu kupuješ topánky? Sebe. ― Whom are you buying shoes for? Myself.

• “sebe”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025