selve

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Danish

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Adjective

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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

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French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sɛlv/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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selve f (plural selves)

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

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin silva.

Noun

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selve f (plural selvis)

  1. wood, forest
    Synonym: bosc

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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selve f

  1. plural of selva

Anagrams

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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selve

  1. self (myself, yourself etc.)

Descendants

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  • Dutch: zelf
  • Limburgish: zèlf

Adjective

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selve

  1. same, particular

Inflection

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This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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Further reading

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Middle English

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Noun

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selve

  1. Alternative form of salve

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From selv, traditionally a pronoun.

Determiner

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selve

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

Usage notes

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

References

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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

  1. forest

Votic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *selvä.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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selve

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

Inflection

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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

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  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “selvä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn