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.
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: Borrowed from Classical Persian خود (xʷad). Compare Bengali খোদ (khōd), Gujarati ખુદ (khud), Marathi खुद्द (khudda), Punjabi ਖ਼ੁਦ (xud). Doublet of स्वतः (svataḥ).
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: Attested as mềnh, mình, in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). The form mềnh appears to be more conservative and was widely used in the Northern dialects, while the now common form mình seems to be originally Central-Southern. In Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), a dictionary based chiefly on the Northern dialects, mềnh was the much more common form. In…