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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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yourself
English
Etymology
Equivalent to your +? -self.
Alternative forms
- yerself
- yo'self
- yoself
- Yourself (honorific)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /j???s?lf/
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /j??s?lf/
- (General American, strong) IPA(key): /j???s?lf/
- (General American, weak) IPA(key): /j??s?lf/
- Hyphenation: your?self
- Rhymes: -?lf
Pronoun
yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)
- (reflexive) Your own self (singular).
- Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
- You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
- You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
- After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
Translations
Derived terms
- hello yourself, and see how you like it
See also
yourself From the web:
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- what yourself love
- what's yourself in french
- what yourself sentence
- yourself what is the meaning
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