English word self comes from Proto-Indo-European *s(w)e-, and later Proto-Germanic *selbaz (Self.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*s(w)e- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | separate, apart |
*selbʰ- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | one's own |
*selbaz | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Self. |
seolf | Old English (ca. 450-1100) (ang) | |
silf | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | |
self | English (en) | (commercial, _, or, _, humorous) Myself.. (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned). (botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).. (molecular biology, immunology) Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, [...] |