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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.1.1 Translations 2 Maltese 2.1 Noun 3 Old English 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronoun

[ English

[ Etymology

Old English self, seolf, sylf.

[ Pronunciation

IPA: /sɛlf/

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  Rhymes: -ɛlf

[ Noun

Singular self

Plural selves

self (plural selves)

1. The essential qualities that make a person or a thing distinct from all others.

[ Adjective

self

1. (obsolete) same

   • 1605: I am made of that self mettle as my sister — William Shakespeare, King Lear I.i

[ Related terms

• the personal pronouns: myself, ourselves, yourself, thyself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves.
• thee indefinite pronouns: oneself, ones self.
• selfsame

[ Translations

Chinese Characters: 自 (zì) Crimean Tatar: özü Dutch: zelf nl(nl) n. Finnish: itse ^ German: Selbst n. Ido: ipsa Irish: féin ga(ga) Italian: stesso it(it)

Japanese: 自身 (じしん, jíshin) Korean: 자신 (jasin), 자기자신 (jagijasin) Kurdish: Sorani: خۆ ku(ku) (xo) Norwegian: selv Russian: себя ru(ru) (sebjá) Spanish: yo m. (psychology), ser m. (psychology) Swedish: själv sv(sv)

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[ Maltese

[ Noun

self

1. loan

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[ Old English

[ Etymology

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

[ Pronoun

self

1. self