myself

Meaning

Pronoun

• Me, as direct or indirect object .
• Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
• In my normal state of body or mind.
• Me (as the object of a verb or preposition).
• I (as the subject of a verb).
• my name is...

Related

Similar words

• me

Origin

• From Middle English myself, meself, me-self, me sylf, from Old English mē self, mē seolf, equivalent to me (pronoun) + self (pronoun), later partly reinterpreted as my + self (noun), my + -self. Compare Scots mysel, mysell, West Frisian mysels, Dutch mijzelf, German mich selbst, mir selbst, Norwegian Bokmål meg selv.