Etymograph

English

self-aware

From self- + aware.

A compound of self- + aware

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-

Proto-Germanic *selbaz ‘self’

Proto-Germanic *selba-

English self-

Proto-West Germanic *gawar ‘aware’

Old English ġewær

Middle English aware

English aware

Today it means

adj Aware of oneself as an individual that exists in the real world.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “self-aware”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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