selve

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Danish

Adjective

selve

  1. very, itself, herself, himself
    • 1998, Strategisk miljøvurdering i regionplanlægningen, Nordic Council of Ministers, →ISBN, page 63:
      Denne mulighed er imidlertid udelukket, når miljøvurderingen er integreret i selve planudformningen.
      This possibility is, however, excluded when the environmental assessment is integrated in the plan-forming itself.
    • 2009, Schalburg: en patriotisk landsforræder, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 327:
      ... Unterscharführer Erik Westergaard, der deltog i selve angrebet sammen med Schalburg.
      ... Unterscharführer Erik Westergaard, who participated in the attack itself along with Schalburg.

Synonyms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese selva, cognate with the Old French word below.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛlv/
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Noun

selve f (plural selves)

  1. (literary, slightly dated) tropical forest, in particular Amazonian rainforest

Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin silva.

Noun

selve f (plural selvis)

  1. wood, forest
    Synonym: bosc

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsel.ve/
  • Rhymes: -elve
  • Hyphenation: sél‧ve

Noun

selve f

  1. plural of selva

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch selvo, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

selve

  1. self (myself, yourself etc.)

Descendants

  • Dutch: zelf
  • Limburgish: zèlf

Adjective

selve

  1. same, particular

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

selve

  1. Alternative form of salve

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From selv, traditionally a pronoun.

Determiner

selve

  1. herself, himself, itself, the very ...

Usage notes

Used attributively in Bokmål, whereas herself, himself, and itself are postpositive: e.g. selve tårnet - the tower itself.

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin silva (“forest, wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“mountain, ridge, forest”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *swiljō, *suljō (“beam, threshold”), whence Old English syll, sylle (“beam, large timber used as a foundation for a wall”) (Modern English sill). More at sill.

Noun

selve oblique singular, f (oblique plural selves, nominative singular selve, nominative plural selves)

  1. forest

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *selvä.

Pronunciation

Adjective

selve

  1. clear
  2. skilled, talented
  3. intelligent, smart

Inflection

Declension of selve (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative selve selved
genitive selvä selvije, selvii
partitive selvä selviite, selvii
illative selväse, selvä selviise
inessive selvez selviiz
elative selvesse selviisse
allative selvele selviile
adessive selvelle selviille
ablative selvelte selviilte
translative selvessi selviissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “selvä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat, 2nd edition, Tallinn
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