different between yourself vs thyself

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)

1. (reflexive) Your own self (singular).

   Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.

2. 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

English

Alternative forms

• Thyself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English thy-selfe, thiself, thi-zelf, from Old English þ?nes silfes, þ?nre sylfre, etc., equivalent to thy +? -self. Compare Middle English thou-self, Old English þ? sylfum, þ? selfum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?-s?lf', IPA^(key): /ða??s?lf/
• Hyphenation: thy?self

Pronoun

thyself

1. (archaic, literary, dialectal) yourself (as the object of a verb or preposition or as an intensifier); reflexive case of thou

Synonyms

• theeself

See also

Anagrams

• Flythes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thiself

Etymology

from Old English þ?nes silfes, þ?nre sylfre, etc., equivalent to thy +? self.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?s?lf/

Pronoun

thyself

1. yourself

Descendants

• English: thyself
• Yola: theezil

References

• “th?-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.