Etymology

self-palpation

Today it means: The process of using one's hands and fingers to carefully feel one's own body to detect abnormalities, such as lumps, swelling, cysts, or textural changes Full definition →

English palpation ← 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. Englishpalpate
  9. Englishpalpation
  10. English todayself-palpation

From self- + palpation.

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