Etymology

self-discovery

Today it means: The action or process of achieving self-knowledge. Full definition →

English discovery ← Middle English self- ← Old English self-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*swé?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*selbaz
  4. Old Englishself
  5. Old Englishself-
  6. Middle Englishself-
  7. Englishself-
  8. Englishdiscovery
  9. English todayself-discovery

From self- + discovery.

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