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.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / self-aware