sebe

sèbé

1. African fan palm, Borassus aethiopum

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛbɛ]

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• Rhymes: -ɛbɛ

sebe

1. (genitive, accusative, reflexive) oneself
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

• sebe in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

From Latin saepem (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseβe̝/

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. hedge, fence

   Synonym: tapaxe

   • 1316, Miguel Romaní Martinez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, volume 2, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 32:

     acharon no herdamento desa grana de Lamas estaquas chantadas et divisoes feytas et sebes deribadas

     they found, in the lands of that farm of Lamas, grounded stakes and [new] divisions and overthrown hedges

• sebeiro (“hedge”)

• “sebe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “sebe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sebe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sebe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

seb (“wound, injury”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɛbɛ]
• Hyphenation: se‧be

sebe

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of seb

sebe inan

1. Alternative form of séip (“river”)
   • 1769, Ezra Stiles, Notes on Narragansett Indian Vocabulary‎, Yale University Beinecke Library, Local record 1769.09.06.00, OID 11413743, pages 2 (24):

     River Sepe or Sebe

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• William Cowan (1973) “Narragansett 126 years after”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 39, number 1, →ISSN, page 10
• James Hammond Trumbull (1903) “sépu, séip, seep”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 148

Inherited from Latin saepem.

• Hyphenation: se‧be

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. hedge (thicket of bushes planted in a row)

   Synonyms: barda, cerca viva

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• IPA^(key): /sêbe/
• Hyphenation: se‧be

sȅbe (Cyrillic spelling се̏бе)

1. oneself (reflexive pronoun)
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sebě.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛbɛ/

sebe

1. (reflexive personal) replaces the dative of a personal pronoun when the subject is of the same person as the dative object; roughly comparable with to oneself or for oneself

   Synonym: si

   Kupujem si topánky. ― I am buying "me" shoes.

   Komu kupuješ topánky? Sebe. ― Whom/Who are you buying the shoes for? Myself.

• “sebe”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024