selbst
Meaning
-
personally, by oneself
Concepts
on one’s own
one’s own interests
throughout the body
for one’s self
person himself
as one would expect
by myself
-selfmyself
Synonyms
in eigener Person
wenn schon
von alleine
an sich
eigene Person
man selbst
eigene Körper
Betreffende
in Frage kommende Person
perönlich
auto
Fleisch geworden
fleischgeworden
nicht mal
bis
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zɛlpst/
Etymology
In summary
With excrescent -t (same: eins > einst, su(n)s > sonst etc.) fossilized from the nonfeminine genitive singular Middle High German sëlbes, from the Old High German pronoun selb, selbo, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ- (“one's own”), from *s(w)e- (“separate, apart”). Compare Low German sulv, Dutch zelf, English self, Danish selv.
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