my

Meaning

1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
2. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
3. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
4. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.

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

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maɪ/

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.