-self

*selbʰ- (Proto-Indo-European)

one's own

*selbaz (Proto-Germanic)

Self.

seolf (Old English)

sulf (Middle English)

self (English)

(botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).. (molecular biology, immunology) Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).. An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).. The subject of [...]

-self (English)

Used in forming intensive and reflexive forms of the singular personal pronouns.