self-injury

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self-injury

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Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

English injury

English self-injury

From self- + injury.

noun self-injuries

  1. countable, uncountable self-harm

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