Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOne individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. · The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. · An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves). · Self-interest or personal advantage.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Middle English self English self From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ- (“one's own”). Cognates Cognates with Saterland Frisian sälven, säärm, sääuwen (“oneself”), West Frisian sels (“oneself”), Bavarian söbe (“identical, same”), söber (“self”), Dutch zelf (“myself, oneself”), German selber (“self”), selbst (“by oneself”), Luxembourgish selwer (“self”), Yiddish זעלב (zelb, “same”), Danish selv (“self”), Elfdalian siuov (“self”), Faroese sjálvur (“self”), Icelandic sjálfur (“self”), Norwegian Bokmål selv, Norwegian Nynorsk sjølv, Swedish själv (“self”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰 (silba, “self”).
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- Inherited-form mentionsalveenm
- Inherited-form mentionselfang
- Inherited-form mention*selbazgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*selbʰ-ine-pro · one's own
- Cognate mentionsälvenstq
- Cognate mentionselsfy · oneself
- Cognate mentionsöbebar · identical, same
- Cognate mentionzelfnl · myself, oneself
- Cognate mentionselberde · self
- Cognate mentionselwerlb · self
- Cognate mentionזעלבyi · same
- Cognate mentionselvda · self
- Cognate mentionsiuovovd · self
- Cognate mentionsjálvurfo · self
- Cognate mentionsjálfuris · self
- Cognate mentionselvnb
- Cognate mentionsjølvnn
- Cognate mentionsjälvsv · self
- Cognate mention𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰got · self
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