selve
Danish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
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.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese selva, cognate with the Old French word below.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
selve f (plural selves)
- (literary, slightly dated) tropical forest, in particular Amazonian rainforest
Further reading[edit]
- “selve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
selve f (plural selvis)
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
selve f
Anagrams[edit]
Middle Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Dutch selvo, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
selve
Descendants[edit]
Adjective[edit]
selve
Inflection[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
- Dutch: zelfde
Further reading[edit]
- “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[edit]
Noun[edit]
selve
- Alternative form of salve
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From selv, traditionally a pronoun.
Determiner[edit]
selve
Usage notes[edit]
Used attributively in Bokmål, whereas herself, himself, and itself are postpositive: e.g. selve tårnet - the tower itself.
References[edit]
- “selve” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
selve oblique singular, f (oblique plural selves, nominative singular selve, nominative plural selves)
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