my
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (stressed) enPR: mī IPA(key): /maɪ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (unstressed) IPA(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
- (Ireland, Scouse, some speakers) IPA(key): /mi/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
- Homophone: muh (some dialects)
Etymology 1Edit
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.
DeterminerEdit
my
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- Belonging to me.
- I can't find my book.
- Associated with me.
- My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
- Don't you know my name?
- I recognised him because he had attended my school.
- Related to me.
- My parents won't let me go out tonight.
- 1671, John Milton, “Book the First”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 165-166, page 10:
- From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
- In the possession of me.
- I have to take my books back to the library soon.
- Belonging to me.
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Etymology 2Edit
An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my Lord
InterjectionEdit
my
Derived termsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronounEdit
my (subject ek)
- me (object)
Alternative formsEdit
See alsoEdit
subjective | objective | possessive | ||||
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singular | 1st | ek | my | |||
2nd | jy | jou | ||||
2nd, formal | u | |||||
3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | |||
3rd, fem | sy | haar | ||||
3rd, neut | dit | sy | ||||
plural | 1st | ons | ||||
2nd | julle | julle / jul1 | ||||
3rd | hulle | hulle / hul1 | ||||
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. |
Etymology 2Edit
DeterminerEdit
my
- my; of me
Alternative formsEdit
See alsoEdit
subjective | objective | possessive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | 1st | ek | my | |||
2nd | jy | jou | ||||
2nd, formal | u | |||||
3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | |||
3rd, fem | sy | haar | ||||
3rd, neut | dit | sy | ||||
plural | 1st | ons | ||||
2nd | julle | julle / jul1 | ||||
3rd | hulle | hulle / hul1 | ||||
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. |
Chinese Pidgin EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronounEdit
my
- I (subject pronoun)
- 1836 January, “Jargon spoken at Canton: how it originated and has grown into use; mode in which the Chinese learn English; examples of the language in common use between foreigners and Chinese”, in The Chinese Repository, volume IV, number 9, page 433:
- ‘My wanchee takee go away alla this cover, putee nother piece,’ replied I.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- me (object pronoun)
- Synonym: me
- my (possessive pronoun)
CornishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (Standard Cornish) me
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī.
PronounEdit
my
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
my
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- my in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- my in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DanishEdit
NounEdit
my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)
DeclensionEdit
NounEdit
my c
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “my” in Den Danske Ordbog
EgyptianEdit
EtymologyEdit
mj (“like”) + -j (“adverbializing suffix”).
PronunciationEdit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /miː/
- Conventional anglicization: my
AdverbEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86.
Lower SorbianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos
PronounEdit
my pl
DeclensionEdit
ManxEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.
ConjunctionEdit
my
Middle EnglishEdit
DeterminerEdit
my (subjective pronoun I)
- Alternative form of mi
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *me-.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
my
- we (first person plural )
DeclensionEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- my in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
PronounEdit
my
- Obsolete form of mim.
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
my
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- my in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
my n
Upper SorbianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos
PronounEdit
my
DeclensionEdit
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
my
WestrobothnianEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse mý, from Proto-Germanic *mugjǭ, *mują, from Proto-Indo-European *mu (“fly”), *mew-. Cognates with Norwegian mygg, Swedish mygga, Danish myg, Old English mycg, mycge (whence Middle English mygga, English midge); Old High German mucka (German Mücke (“mosquito”)); Latvian muša; Albanian mizë; Russian му́ха (múxa); Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa); Ukrainian му́ха (múxa); Bulgarian му́ха (múha); Lower Sorbian mucha, Polish mucha and Slovak mucha. Akin to Latin musca (“fly”). Compare the Dutch mug.
NounEdit
my n
NounEdit
my f
Derived termsEdit
- myskrank (“crane fly”)