selva
Catalan
noun
Definitions
- jungle, rainforest
Etymology
Inherited from Latin silva (forest, wood, woods) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (dwelling, village, human settlement, spring, sneak, crawl, favor, move quickly, creep, of good mood, home).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sel-
Gloss
dwelling, village, human settlement, spring, sneak, crawl, favor, move quickly, creep, of good mood, home
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
村
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- selva English
- silva English
- silvicolous English
- Silvana Latin
- Silvanus Latin
- Silvānus Latin
- exsul Latin
- insultus Latin
- salio Latin
- silva Latin
- silvaticus Latin
- silvicola Latin
- silviger Latin
- solamen Latin
- īnsultāre Latin
- Silvia Italian
- selva Italian
- selvicoltore Italian
- selvicoltura Italian
- sylve French
- сельва Russian
- Silvia Spanish, Castilian
- selva Spanish, Castilian
- silvicultor Spanish, Castilian
- silvicultura Spanish, Castilian
- ῡ̔́λη Ancient Greek
- *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European
- *sel- Proto-Indo-European
- *sleng- Proto-Indo-European
- *slewb- Proto-Indo-European
- *sl̥yétor Proto-Indo-European
- *swel- Proto-Indo-European
- *sél-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- Silvia Portuguese
- selva Portuguese
- silvicultura Portuguese
- *fraslindaną Proto-Germanic
- *saliz Proto-Germanic
- *salą Proto-Germanic
- *slippijaną Proto-Germanic
- *sulī Proto-Germanic
- *sēliz Proto-Germanic
- Sylwia Polish
- शाला Sanskrit
- *selo Proto-Slavic
- selve Old French
- seimeira Galician
- silvă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sala Latvian
- insult Middle French
- silva Old Portuguese
- sālig Old Saxon
- selva Asturian
- selve Friulian