selv-

See also: selv

Danish

Prefix

selv-

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see selv.
2. happening automatically, not requiring outside manipulation, self-, auto-
3. (archaic) Forming adverbs from ordinal numbers, with the sense "heading a group of n persons, especially one convened for offensive purposes".
   • 2016, Ukendt Ukendt, Islandske sagaer, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Og de blev da enige med hinanden om at overfalde Gunnar. Thorgeir Starkadsen sagde da, at Gunnar om nogle få dage ville være ene hjemme, den anden skulle da møde ham selvtolvte, og han ville have lige så mange.

     And they then agreed to ambush Gunnar. Thorgeir Starkadsen then said that Gunnar would be home alone in a few days; the other one [Thorgeir Otkelsen] was then to meet him with eleven other men, and he himself would bring the same number.

   • 2007, Vagn Lundbye, Det nordiske testamente, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN, page 46:

     “Da jeg styred' væk fra Værmlands kyst / og sad selvfemtende i min faders skib / og tænkte på den tur, der vented', / beslutted' jeg, at alt, I sagde, / det ville jeg gøre, smukke Vealtoav. / Dø om så det gælder!

     "As I steered away from the coast of Värmland / and sat as the fifteenth in my father's ship / and thought of the trip that awaited / I decided, that everything you said, / I would do, beautiful Vealtoav. / Die, if that should be the consequence thereof!

Derived terms

Danish terms prefixed with selv-