my selfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 myself, meself, from 古期英語 mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me +‎ self, later partly reinterpreted as my +‎ self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).

発音

• (weak form) IPA: /məˈsɛlf/
• (strong form) IPA: /maɪˈsɛlf/
• ハイフネーション: my‧self
• 韻: -ɛlf

代名詞

myself (reflexive case of I)

1. (reflexive pronoun) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. [from 9th c.]

   I taught myself.

   (I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

   • 2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN‎:

     “If you were a little bit kinder to yourself today, or if you gained insight, if you had an ‘Aha’ like, ‘Oh, man, I really do talk to myself the way my mom talked to me,’ or you identify a childhood wound … all of that is a form of reparenting,” she said.

2. 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. [from 10th c.]

   I myself have witnessed the event.

3. In my normal state of body or mind.

   I feel like myself.

4. (proscribed) Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself. [from 10th c.]

   Give the ball to John or myself.

5. (archaic, now proscribed) I (as the subject of a verb). [from 14th c.]

   My wife and myself want to go on vacation.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land […].

   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged:

     Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.

6. (India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...

   Myself John.

使用する際の注意点

• Use where I could be used is mostly poetic or archaic, except with a coordinating conjunction, such as and. However, this usage is non-standard.
• Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) reports opposition to the non-reflexive use, especially where I could be used.
• AP Stylebook Online (2010) reports opposition to the non-reflexive use, as reflexive pronouns (like myself) should not be used instead of objective pronouns (like me).

同意語

• (reflexive pronoun): me

関連する語

• myselves
• I'll see myself out

参考

語源

From 古期英語 mē self, mē seolf, equivalent to my +‎ self.

発音

• IPA: /miːˈsɛlf/, /miˈsɛlf/

代名詞

myself

1. myself

派生した語

• English: myself
• Scots: mysel
• Yola: meezil

参照

• “mī-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.