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Danish
Adjective
selve
- 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
Noun
selve f (plural selves)
- (literary, slightly dated) tropical forest, in particular Amazonian rainforest
Further reading
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin silva.
Noun
selve f (plural selvis)
- wood, forest
- Synonym: bosc
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
selve f
- plural of selva
Anagrams
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch selvo, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
selve
- self (myself, yourself etc.)
Descendants
Adjective
selve
- same, particular
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
Middle English
Noun
selve
- Alternative form of salve
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From selv, traditionally a pronoun.
Determiner
selve
- 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
- “selve” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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)
- forest