self-regarding

Questions

What does self-regarding mean?

considering oneself and one's own interests before others

Where does self-regarding come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English regarding English self-regarding From self- + regarding.

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