selg

selg

See also: sel'g

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *selkä.

Noun

selg (genitive selja, partitive selga)

1. (anatomy) back
2. back, backside (of an object)

Declension

Declension of selg (type külm)

	singular	plural
nominative	selg	seljad
genitive	selja	selgade
partitive	selga	selgi / selgasid
illative	selga / seljasse	selgadesse / seljisse
inessive	seljas	selgades / seljis
elative	seljast	selgadest / seljist
allative	seljale	selgadele / seljile
adessive	seljal	selgadel / seljil
ablative	seljalt	selgadelt / seljilt
translative	seljaks	selgadeks / seljiks
terminative	seljani	selgadeni
essive	seljana	selgadena
abessive	seljata	selgadeta
comitative	seljaga	selgadega

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

selg

1. imperative of selge

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *selgā, from Proto-Indo-European *selǵ- (“let loose, send”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲelɡ/

Noun

selg f

1. hunt
2. (hunted animals) quarry, game

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	selgL	seilgL	selgaH
Vocative	selgL	seilgL	selgaH
Accusative	seilgN	seilgL	selgaH
Genitive	seilgeH	selgL	selgN
Dative	seilgL	selgaib	selgaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: seilg
• Scottish Gaelic: sealg
• Manx: shelg

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
selg	ṡelg	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “selgā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 329

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “selg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language