s(w)e-

Pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of the sentence); further appearing in various forms referring to the social group as an entity, “(we our-)selves.”

Derivatives include self, gossip, suicide, secret, sober, sullen, ethic, and idiot.

1. Suffixed extended form *sel-bho-. self, from Old English self, sylf, self, same, from Germanic *selbaz, self.

2. Suffixed form *s(w)e-bh(o)-. sib; gossip, from Old English sibb, relative, from Germanic *sibja-, “one's own,” blood relation, relative.

3. Suffixed form *se-ge. bustle¹, from Old Norse -sk, reflexive suffix (as in būask, to make oneself ready), from sik, oneself (reflexive pronoun), from Germanic *sik, self.

4. Suffixed form *swoi-no-. swain; boatswain, from Old Norse sveinn, herdsman, boy, from Germanic *swainaz, “one's own (man),” attendant, servant.

5. Suffixed form *s(u)w-o-, one's own.

a. suicide, from Latin suī (genitive), of oneself;

b. swami, from Sanskrit svāmī, “one's own master,” owner, prince, from sva- (< *swo-), one's own.

6. Extended form *sed. secede, secern, seclude, secret, secure, sedition, seduction, sedulous, segregate, select, separate, sever, sure, from Latin sēd, sē, sē-, without, apart (< “on one's own”);

c. sober, from Latin compound sōbrius, not drunk (ēbrius, drunk; see egʷh-).

7. Possibly suffixed lengthened o-grade form *sō-lo. sole², solitary, solitude, solo, sullen; desolate, soliloquy, solipsism, from Latin sōlus, by oneself alone.

8. Extended root *swē̆dh-, “that which is one's own,” peculiarity, custom.

a. sodality, from Latin sodālis, companion (< “one's own,” “relative”);

b. suffixed form *swēdh-sko-. consuetude, custom, desuetude, mansuetude, mastiff, from Latin suēscere, to accustom, get accustomed;

c. ethic, ethos; cacoethes, from Greek ēthos, custom, disposition, trait;

d. suffixed form *swedh-no-. ethnic, ethno-, from Greek ethnos, band of people living together, nation, people (< “people of one's own kind”).

9. Suffixed extended form *swet-aro-. hetaera, from Greek hetairos, comrade, companion, earlier hetaros.

10. Suffixed extended form *swed-yo-. idio-, idiom, idiot; idiopathy, idiosyncrasy, from Greek idios, personal, private (“particular to oneself”).

11. Suffixed form *swei-no-. Sinn Fein, from Old Irish féin, self.

12. Suffixed (ablatival) form *swe-tos, from oneself. khedive, from Old Iranian khvadāta-, lord, by haplology from compound form *khvatō-dāta-, created from oneself (dāta-, created; see dhē-).

13. Perhaps suffixed form *swe-tono-. Khotanese, from Khotanese Hvatana-, perhaps “those holding their own (power), masters.”

 

[Pokorny se- 882.]

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