self

• n. 自己、自我；本質；利己主義
• adj.
• vt.自家受精させる；近親交配させる
• vi.自家受精させる
• n.（セルフ）人の名前；（英）シルヴェスター

古英語のself, self, selfから、原ゲルマン語の*selbaz, selfから、PIEの*sel-bho, 反射代名詞の語源である*swe, selfの拡大形、語源はswain, customと同じ。

self

self: [OE] Self is a general Germanic word, closely related to German selbe, Dutch zelf, Swedish sjelv, and Danish selv. These all point back to a prehistoric Germanic *selba-. Where this came from is not known for certain, although it seems likely to be related in some way to various pronouns denoting ‘oneself’, such as German sich and French se. According to John Hacket in his Scrinia reserata 1693, the word selfish was coined in the early 1640s by the Presbyterians.

self (pron.)

Old English self, seolf, sylf "one's own person, -self; own, same," from Proto-Germanic *selbaz (cognates: Old Norse sjalfr, Old Frisian self, Dutch zelf, Old High German selb, German selb, selbst, Gothic silba), Proto-Germanic *selbaz "self," from PIE *sel-bho-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of a sentence), also used in forms denoting the speaker's social group, "(we our-)selves" (see idiom).

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. [Alan Watts]

Its use in compounds to form reflexive pronouns grew out of independent use in Old English. As a noun from early 14c.

1. He has never exhibited the self -confidence，bordering on arrogance，of his predecessor.

彼は前任者のような傲慢に近い自信を示したことがない。

2.I felt so self -conscious under Luke 's mother 's intense gaze.

ルークの母が見ている目の下で、私は非常に気まずい思いをした。

3.She has now changed into a happy, self -confident woman.

今では彼女は幸せで自信のある女性になっている。

4.He is being treated for a self ?inficted gunshot wound.

彼は発砲による自傷傷で治療を受けている。

5.She summoned up all her pity for him,to smother her self -pity.

彼女は心の中の自分の憐れみを抑え、慈悲の気持ちを彼に注いだ。