Word.ws English Dictionary

eirself

eirself pronoun: a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, equivalent to themselves/themself and coordinate with himself or herself.

Pronoun

eirself

  1. (nonstandard, rare, reflexive) A gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, equivalent to themselves/themself and coordinate with himself or herself.
    • In practical terms, the sensei needs to teach some stretching in order to protect eir students from injury and eirself from liability.1999 July 23, Allover Stripes, “looking for a style”, in rec.martial-arts.moderated (Usenet)
    • Finished with spiritual cleaning, Eir hunger satisfied, Sereah took a quick sonic shower and prepared Eirself for the formal dinner. E wasn't yet used to Eir red command uniform.1999 November 30, excalibor, “USS TITANIA: Preparations for dinner...”, in alt.starfleet.rpg (Usenet)

Origin of eirself

From eir + -self, in pattern of hisself and herself (construed as formed from adjectival her), or by dropping th from theirself.

Words that rhyme with eirself

38 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about eirself

What does eirself mean?
Eirself means a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, equivalent to themselves/themself and coordinate with himself or herself.
What part of speech is eirself?
Eirself is a pronoun.

Words near eirself in the dictionary

  1. eirie
  2. eiries
  3. Eirini
  4. Eirish
  5. eirs
  6. eirself
  7. eiruv
  8. eiruvin
  9. EIS
  10. eisa
  11. Eisav

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eirself (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “eirself.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eirself. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.