my

Sentences

I never saw
🪚

this thing before in my life .

" Give me my book
📖

," the boy
👦

said .

And tomorrow night , they will come into my possession .

Philosophy is my favorite subject .

That is an antelope , my son .

Meaning

mine

our

my own

belonging to me

one’s own

for me

privately owned

elder brother

father’s father

father’s mother

mother’s father

mother’s mother

of me

younger brother

to me

’ll

belonging to my side

pronominal ending

grand-mother

elder sister

m’n

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maɪ/

Inherited from Middle English

Inherited from Old English

Cognate with Western Frisian

Cognate with Afrikaans

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with German

Cognate with Swedish

In summary

From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”). Cognate with West Frisian myn (“my”), Afrikaans my (“my”), Dutch mijn (“my”), German mein (“my”), Swedish min (“my”). More at me.

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