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ownself

pron

Etymology

From own + self.

  1. inherited from *selbʰ-✻ — “one's own”
  2. inherited from *selbaz✻
  3. inherited from self
  4. inherited from salve
  5. compounded as ownself — “own + self”

Definitions

  1. (One's) self

    (One's) self; used with a preceding possessive adjective to form a pronominal phrase.

    • You may be ashamed of your ownself, to disturb People at this Time of Night.
    • “Tea Cake ain't been no boy for some time. He's round thirty his ownself.”
    • Did you paint this your ownself?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ownself. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA