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sèbé

1. African fan palm, Borassus aethiopum

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛbɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛbɛ

sebe

1. (genitive, accusative, reflexive) oneself
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

• “sebe”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

From Latin saepem (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseβe̝/

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. hedge, fence

   Synonym: tapaxe

   • 1316, Miguel Romaní Martinez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, volume 2, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 32:

     acharon no herdamento desa grana de Lamas estaquas chantadas et divisoes feytas et sebes deribadas

     they found, in the lands of that farm of Lamas, grounded stakes and [new] divisions and overthrown hedges

• sebeiro (“hedge”)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sebe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sebe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sebe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sebe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

seb (“wound, injury”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɛbɛ]
• Hyphenation: se‧be

sebe

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of seb

sebe inan

1. Alternative form of séip (“river”)

• William Cowan (1973) “Narragansett 126 years after”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 39, number 1, →ISSN, page 10
• James Hammond Trumbull (1903) “sépu, séip, seep”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 148

Inherited from Latin saepem.

• Hyphenation: se‧be

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. hedge (thicket of bushes planted in a row)

   Synonyms: barda, cerca viva

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /sêbe/
• Hyphenation: se‧be

sȅbe (Cyrillic spelling се̏бе)

1. oneself (reflexive pronoun)
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sebě.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛbɛ/

sebe

1. dative/locative of seba

   Kupujem si topánky. ― I am buying me shoes.

   Komu kupuješ topánky? Sebe. ― Whom are you buying shoes for? Myself.

• “sebe”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025