selvo

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *selbaz.

Pronoun

selvo

1. self
   • The Wachtendonck Codex, Psalm 65, circa 950

     Ne uuerthint irhauan an sig seluan

     Not may be exalted in themselves

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: selve
  • Dutch: zelf
    • Afrikaans: self
  • Limburgish: zèlf

Further reading

• “self”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• self

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *selbaz, whence also Old High German selb, Old Norse sjalfr.

Pronoun

selvo

1. self