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myself
English
Alternative forms
- meself (non-standard)
- myselfe (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English myself, meself, me-self, me sylf, from Old English m? self, m? seolf (“myself”), equivalent to me (pronoun) + self (pronoun), later partly reinterpreted as my + self (noun), my +? -self. Compare Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ma??s?lf/
- Rhymes: -?lf
- Hyphenation: my?self
Pronoun
myself (reflexive case of I)
- (reflexive) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. [from 9th c.]
- Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. [from 10th c.]
- In my normal state of body or mind.
- Me (as the object of a verb or preposition). [from 10th c.]
- I feel like myself.
- (archaic) I (as the subject of a verb). [from 14th c.]
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged:
- Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged:
- (India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...
Usage notes
- Use where I could be used is mostly poetic or archaic, except with a coordinating conjunction, such as and.
- Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) reports opposition to the intensifier use, especially where I could be used.
- AP Stylebook Online (2010) reports opposition to the intensifier use as reflexive pronouns (like myself) should not be used instead of objective pronouns (like me).
Synonyms
- (reflexive pronoun): me
Related terms
- myselves
Translations
See also
Middle English
Alternative forms
- myselve
Etymology
From Old English m? self, m? seolf, equivalent to my +? self.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi?s?lf/
Pronoun
myself
- myself
Descendants
- English: myself
- Yola: meezil
References
- “m?-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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meself
English
Etymology
From me +? -self.
Pronoun
meself
- (slang or dialectal, Britain, Ireland) Alternative form of myself
- 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv:
- ‘True, I haven’t introduced meself.’
- 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv:
Anagrams
- emself, flemes
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