köken: With excrescent -t (same: eins > einst, su(n)s > sonst etc.) fossilized from the neutral gendered Middle High German sëlbes, from the Old High German pronoun sëlb, sëlbo, 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.
Reflexive suffix appended to finite verbs and infinitives to make a reflexive, reciprocal, intransitive or passive verb.
eş: -сь
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Balto-Slavic *sen Proto-Slavic *sę Old East Slavic сѧ (sę) Russian -ся From Old East Slavic сѧ (sę), from Proto-Slavic *sę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sen, from Proto-Indo-European *swé. It is considered the shortened form of себя́ (sebjá). Compare Belarusian and Ukrainian -ся (-sja), Italian -si, Spanish se.
Third person singular and plural reflexive pronoun; himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself · Second person singular and plural formal reflexive pronoun; yourself, yourselves · expresses an unintended result with many otherwise non-reflexive and ergative verbs
köken: From Middle Dutch sich, from Middle High German sich, from Old High German sih, from Proto-West Germanic *sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek. Old Dutch did not have a reflexive pronoun (only rarely in early Limburgish texts), but used the normal accusative pronoun (if necessary intensified by selven, cf. English himself). Although the use of zich in Holland-based Dutch was clearly triggered by written…
köken: Lexicalization of mag (“body”) + -a (possessive suffix). This original meaning of the root word cannot be found in Hungarian, but it is attested in related languages.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Balto-Slavic *sen Proto-Slavic *sę Slovak sa Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sen, from Proto-Indo-European *swé.
Reflexive pronoun for all persons and numbers: itself, himself, herself, oneself, themselves, myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves. · Reflexive pronoun for the third person only: itself, himself, herself, oneself, themselves.
köken: From Middle High German sich, from Old High German sih, from Proto-Germanic *sik, which see for cognates. Some German dialects use sich as a general reflexive of the plural. This usage clearly started out from the Middle High German accusative variant unsich (“us, ourselves”), as it is more widespread for the 1st person plural than the 2nd person. However, no dialect seems to allow sich for the…