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myself

Pronunciation: /maɪˈsɛlf/

The English word “myself” has 6 meanings listed here.

pronoun

  1. Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
  2. 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.
  3. In my normal state of body or mind.
  4. Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.
  5. I (as the subject of a verb).
  6. my name is...

Etymology

From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).

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