self

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.2 See also 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 External links 2 Maltese 2.1 Noun 3 Old English 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronoun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English self, seolf, sylf.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɛlf/
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  Rhymes: -ɛlf

[edit] Noun

self (plural selves)

1. An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness.
   • Sir W. Hamilton

     The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.

[edit] Related terms

• selfdom
• selfhood
• selfish
• selfless
• selfsame
• myself, ourselves, yourself, thyself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself, one's self

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• self-
• person
• I
• ego

[edit] Adjective

self

1. (obsolete) same
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, I.i:

     I am made of that self mettle as my sister.

[edit] External links

• self in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• self in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Maltese

[edit] Noun

self

1. loan

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *selbha-, whence also Old High German selb, Old Norse sjálfr

[edit] Pronoun

self

1. self