self
要点自己
意味
- (他人と区別して)自己,自分,自身
- (人・物の)本質,個性;性格の一面
- 私利,私欲,私心
例文
His parents are tolerant of his self-indulgence.
彼の両親は彼のわがままに寛大だ。
A cafeteria is a self-service style restaurant.
カフェテリアは料理を自分で取るセルフサービスのレストランです。
He tried to get it at the expense of self-respect.
彼は自尊心を犠牲にしてまでそれを得ようとした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ- (“one's own”). Cognates Cognates with Saterland Frisian sälven, säärm, sääuwen (“oneself”), West Frisian sels (“oneself”), Bavarian söbe (“identical, same”), söber (“self”), Dutch zelf (“myself, oneself”), German selber (“self”), selbst (“by oneself”), Luxembourgish selwer (“self”), Yiddish זעלב (zelb, “same”), Danish selv (“self”), Elfdalian siuov (“self”), Faroese sjálvur (“self”), Icelandic sjálfur (“self”), Norwegian Bokmål selv, Norwegian Nynorsk sjølv, Swedish själv (“self”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰 (silba, “self”).