# selve
## Danish
### Adjective

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.

#### Synonyms

* selveste

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛlv/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

selve f (plural selves)
* (literary, slightly dated) tropical forest, in particular Amazonian rainforest

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* levés, lèves

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin silva.

### Noun

selve f (plural selvis)
* wood, forest
    Synonym: bosc

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsel.ve/
* Rhymes: -elve
* Hyphenation: sél‧ve

### Noun

selve f
* plural of selva

### Anagrams

* velse

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzelvə/

### Pronoun

selve
* self (myself, yourself etc.)

#### Descendants

* Dutch: zelf
** Afrikaans: self
* Limburgish: zèlf

### Adjective

selve
* same, particular

#### Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: zelfde

### Further reading

* “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
### Noun

selve
* Alternative form of salve

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From selv, traditionally a pronoun.

### Determiner

selve
* herself, himself, itself, the very ...

#### Usage notes

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

### References

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

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* salve

### Etymology

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

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

## Votic
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *selvä.

### Pronunciation

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

### Adjective

selve
* clear
* skilled, talented
* intelligent, smart

#### Inflection
### References

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