thyself

See also: Thyself

English

Alternative forms

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)(file)
  • 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

Derived terms

See also
English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
personal pronounpossessive
pronoun		possessive
determiner
subjectiveobjectivereflexive
first personsingular I
me (colloquial)		memyself
me
mysen		minemy
mine (before vowels, archaic)
me
plural weusourselves
ourself
oursen		oursour
second personsingularstandard, formal youyouyourself
yoursen		yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		your
archaic, informal thoutheethyself
theeself
thysen		thinethy
thine (before vowels)
pluralstandard you
ye (archaic)		youyourselvesyours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		your
colloquial you all
y'all
you guys		you all
y'all
you guys		y'allselvesy'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 personsingularmasculine hehimhimself
hisself (archaic)
hissen		his
hisn (obsolete outside dialects)		his
feminine sheherherself
hersen		hers
hern (obsolete outside dialects)		her
neuter it
hit		it
hit		itself
hitself		its
his (archaic)		its
his (archaic)
hits
genderless theythemthemself, themselvestheirstheir
genderless, nonspecific
(formal)		 oneoneoneself–one's
plural theythem
hem, 'em		themselves
theirsen		theirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)		their

Anagrams

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
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