selg

See also: sel'g

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *selkä.

Noun

selg (genitive selja, partitive selga)

1. (anatomy) back
2. back, backside (of an object)

Declension

Declension of selg (ÕS type 22i/külm, g-j gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		selg	seljad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	selja
genitive			selgade
partitive		selga	selgi selgasid
illative		selga seljasse	selgadesse seljisse
inessive		seljas	selgades seljis
elative		seljast	selgadest seljist
allative		seljale	selgadele seljile
adessive		seljal	selgadel seljil
ablative		seljalt	selgadelt seljilt
translative		seljaks	selgadeks seljiks
terminative		seljani	selgadeni
essive		seljana	selgadena
abessive		seljata	selgadeta
comitative		seljaga	selgadega

Further reading

• “selg”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “selg”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “selg”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• selg in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

selg

1. imperative of selge

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *selgā, from Proto-Indo-European *selǵ- (“let loose, send”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲelɡ/

Noun

selg f

1. hunt
2. (hunted animals) quarry, game

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	selgL	seilgL	selgaH
Vocative	selgL	seilgL	selgaH
Accusative	seilgN	seilgL	selgaH
Genitive	seilgeH	selgL	selgN
Dative	seilgL	selgaib	selgaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: seilg
• Scottish Gaelic: sealg
• Manx: shelg

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
selg	ṡelg	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “selg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language