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
• 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

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