selv

== Danish == === Etymology 1 === From Old Danish sialfær, sælf, from Old Norse sjalfr, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz. Cognates include English self and German selbst, selber. The sense "even" is probably influenced by German. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /sɛlˀ/, [sɛlˀ] ==== Pronoun ==== selv self, -self (on one's own) self, -self (emphatic) ===== Usage notes ===== Added after a pronoun or a noun. ===== Descendants ===== Norwegian Bokmål: selv ==== Adverb ==== selv even === Etymology 2 === From the pronoun selv. Calque of English self (and German Selbst). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /sɛlˀv/, [sɛlˀʋ] ==== Noun ==== selv n (singular definite selvet, not used in plural form) self (an individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness) ===== Declension ===== ==== See also ==== selv on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da == Norwegian Bokmål == === Alternative forms === sjøl === Etymology === From Danish selv, from Old Norse sjalfr, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ- (“one's own”), from *s(w)e- (“separate, apart”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɛl/ === Pronoun === selv (in the singular) myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself also as, for example: ham selv (himself) (in the plural) ourselves, yourselves, themselves ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== selve === See also === sjølv (Nynorsk) === References === “selv” in The Bokmål Dictionary.