myself

pron

Etymology: From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English 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”).

1. Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.

   “I taught myself.”

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

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.

   “I myself have witnessed the event.”

3. In my normal state of body or mind.

   “I feel like myself.”

4. Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.

   “Give the ball to John or myself.”

5. I (as the subject of a verb).

   “My wife and myself want to go on vacation.”

   “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[…].”

6. my name is...

   “Myself John.”