selve

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.

• selveste

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

• IPA^(key): /sɛlv/

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selve f (plural selves)

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

• “selve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• levés, lèves

From Latin silva.

selve f (plural selvis)

1. wood, forest

   Synonym: bosc

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

selve f

1. plural of selva

• velse

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈzelvə/

selve

1. self (myself, yourself etc.)

• Dutch: zelf
  • Afrikaans: self
• Limburgish: zèlf

selve

1. same, particular

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: zelfde

• “selve”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “selve (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

selve

1. Alternative form of salve

From selv, traditionally a pronoun.

selve

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

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

• “selve” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• salve

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.

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

1. forest

From Proto-Finnic *selvä.

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

selve

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

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.

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