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.
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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
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selve
Inflection edit
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
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)
Votic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *selvä.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
selve
Inflection edit
Declension of selve (type VIII/päive, no gradation) | ||
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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 edit
- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “selvä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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