selga

selga

1. partitive singular of selg
2. illative singular of selg

Borrowed from Livonian sälga (“back; open sea”); compare cognates in other Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish selkä (“back, open water”), Estonian selg (“back”), dialectal sälg).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [sǣlɡa]

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selga f (4th declension)

1. a deep place, far from the coast (of a sea, big lake, river, etc.); the deep sea; the open sea

   izbraukt selgā ― to go to the deep, open sea; to leave the coast

   kuģis izbraucis selgā ― the ship left the coast (into the open sea)

   vējš pūš no selgas ― the wind is blowing from seaways, from the open sea