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Reflexive pronoun   /rəflˈɛksɪv prˈoʊnaʊn/   Listen
Reflexive pronoun

noun
1.
A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent.  Synonym: reflexive.






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... by the surd th, and then assibilated by y; but we could hardly attempt to explain sth thy, because sd z dy. Therefore, unless we are prepared to see with Bopp in the s before th, in this and similar forms, aremnant of the reflexive pronoun, nothing remains but to accept the explanation offered by the Vedic vayodhai, and to separate pseudesthai into pseudes-thai lying to do. That this grammatical compound, if once found successful, should have been repeated in other tenses, giving us ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller



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