my
Meaning
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- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/maɪ/
Etymology
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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