selv

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.

• IPA^(key): /sɛlˀ/, [sɛlˀ]

selv

1. self, -self (on one's own)
2. self, -self (emphatic)

Added after a pronoun or a noun.

• Norwegian Bokmål: selv

selv

1. even

From the pronoun selv. Calque of English self (and German Selbst).

• IPA^(key): /sɛlˀv/, [sɛlˀʋ]

selv n (singular definite selvet, not used in plural form)

1. self (an individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)

• selv on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• sjøl

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”).

selv

1. (in the singular) myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself

   also as, for example: ham selv (himself)

2. (in the plural) ourselves, yourselves, themselves

• selve

• sjølv (Nynorsk)

• “selv” in The Bokmål Dictionary.