Etymograph

English

self-report

From self- + report.

Formed from self- + report

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-

Proto-Germanic *selbaz ‘self’

Proto-Germanic *selba-

English self-

Latin portō ‘to carry’

Latin reportō ‘to carry back, return, remit, refer’

Anglo-Norman reporter

Middle English reporten ‘to report’

English report

The story

Noun sense 2 was coined by players of Among Us, in which the impostor can report the body of another player they have just killed, as if having just discovered it guiltlessly.

Today it means

noun A kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.

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

Etymograph / self-report