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/

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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