thyself

See also: Thyself

English

Alternative forms

• Thyself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English thy-selfe, thiself, thi-zelf, from Old English þīnes silfes, þīnre sylfre, etc., equivalent to thy +‎ -self. Compare Middle English thou-self, Old English þē sylfum, þē selfum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thī-sĕlf', IPA^(key): /ðaɪˈsɛlf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlf
• Hyphenation: thy‧self

Pronoun

thyself

1. (archaic, literary, dialectal) yourself (as the object of a verb or preposition or as an intensifier); reflexive case of thou

   Thou hast only thyself to blame.

   Thou thyself art to blame.

   Physician, heal thyself.

Synonyms

• theeself
• thineself
• thysen

Derived terms

• know thyself

 

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

Anagrams

• Flythes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thiself

Etymology

from Old English þīnes silfes, þīnre sylfre, etc., equivalent to thy +‎ self.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθiːsɛlf/

Pronoun

thyself

1. yourself

Descendants

• English: thyself
• Yola: theezil

References

• “thī-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.