selve

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

• selveste

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛlv/

• Audio

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Noun

selve f (plural selves)

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

Further reading

• “selve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• levés, lèves

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

• velse

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzelvə/

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

• Dutch: zelfde

Further reading

• “selve”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “selve (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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

• “selve” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Old French

Alternative forms

• salve

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

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈselvæ/, [ˈselvʲə̟]
• Rhymes: -elvæ
• Hyphenation: sel‧ve

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 [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn