Etymology

self-harm

Today it means: The deliberate nonsuicidal injuring of one's own body. Full definition →

English harm ← Middle English self- ← Old English self-
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  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. Englishharm
  9. English todayself-harm

From self- + harm.

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