my
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Abbreviation of English Myanmar, formerly Burma, where Burmese is spoken.
Symbol
[edit]my
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (stressed) enPR: mī IPA(key): /maɪ/
- (unstressed) IPA(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
- (Ireland, Scouse, some speakers) IPA(key): /mi/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
- Homophones: muh, me (some dialects)
Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Determiner
[edit]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, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 10, lines 165-166:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]- ain't no shame in my game
- cheers my dears
- did my back hurt your knife
- I don't boil my cabbage twice
- I don't chew my cabbage twice
- kiss my balls
- my arse
- my b
- my bad
- my brother in Christ
- my eye
- my eyeball
- my fellow Americans
- my foot
- my friend
- my giddy aunt
- my God
- my goodness
- my gosh
- my guy
- my lady's washbowl
- my land
- my pleasure
- my point exactly
- my rear
- my sainted aunt
- my sainted uncle
- my sides
- my sister in Christ
- my son
- my stars
- my thigh
- my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
- my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas
- my watch has ended
- my way or the highway
- my word
- no shame in my game
- shiver my sides
- shiver my soul
- so help my tater
- thank you for coming to my TED Talk
- the dog ate my homework
- there's no shame in my game
- upon my soul
- welcome to my life
- whoops, there go my trousers
Related terms
[edit]Translations
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See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my Lord
Interjection
[edit]my
Derived terms
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my (subject ek)
- me (object)
Alternative forms
[edit]See also
[edit]subjective | objective | possessive determiner | possessive pronoun | |||
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singular | 1st | ek | my | myne | ||
2nd | jy | jou | joune | |||
2nd, formal | u | u s’n | ||||
3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | syne | ||
3rd, fem | sy | haar | hare | |||
3rd, neut | dit | sy | syne | |||
plural | 1st | ons | ons s’n | |||
2nd | julle / jul1 | julle s’n | ||||
3rd | hulle / hul1 | hulle s’n | ||||
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence. |
Etymology 2
[edit]Determiner
[edit]my
- my; of me
Alternative forms
[edit]See also
[edit]subjective | objective | possessive determiner | possessive pronoun | |||
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singular | 1st | ek | my | myne | ||
2nd | jy | jou | joune | |||
2nd, formal | u | u s’n | ||||
3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | syne | ||
3rd, fem | sy | haar | hare | |||
3rd, neut | dit | sy | syne | |||
plural | 1st | ons | ons s’n | |||
2nd | julle / jul1 | julle s’n | ||||
3rd | hulle / hul1 | hulle s’n | ||||
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence. |
Cameroon Pidgin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]my
- 1st person singular possessive determiner
See also
[edit]Chinese Pidgin English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]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 quotation)
- me (object pronoun)
- Synonym: me
- my (possessive pronoun)
Cornish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (Standard Cornish) me
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī.
Pronoun
[edit]my
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Czech my, from Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “my”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “my”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “my”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)
Declension
[edit]Noun
[edit]my c
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “my” in Den Danske Ordbog
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]mj (“like”) + -j (“adverbializing suffix”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /miː/
- Conventional anglicization: my
Adverb
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References
[edit]- 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 Sorbian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos.
Pronoun
[edit]my pl
Declension
[edit]Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.
Conjunction
[edit]my
Middle English
[edit]Determiner
[edit]my (subjective pronoun I)
- Alternative form of mi
Old Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my
- we (first person plural)
Declension
[edit]Singular | 1st person | 2nd person | Reflexive |
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Nominative | jáz, já | ty | — |
Genitive | mne, mě | tebe, tě | sebe, sě |
Dative | mně, mi | tobě, ti | sobě, si |
Accusative | mě, mne | tě, tebe | sě, sebe |
Locative | mně | tobě | sobě |
Instrumental | mnú | tobú, tebú | sobú, sebú |
Possessive | mój | tvój | svój |
Dual | 1st person | 2nd person | Reflexive |
Nominative | vě, va, ma | vy | — |
Genitive | najú | vajú | sebe, sě |
Dative | náma | váma | sobě, si |
Accusative | ny, najú | vy, vajú | sě, sebe |
Locative | najú | vajú | sobě |
Instrumental | náma | váma | sobú, sebú |
Possessive | náš, najú | váš, vajú | svój |
Plural | 1st person | 2nd person | Reflexive |
Nominative | my | vy | — |
Genitive | nás | vás | sebe, sě |
Dative | nám, nem | vám, vem | sobě, si |
Accusative | ny, nás | vy, vás | sě, sebe |
Locative | nás | vás | sobě |
Instrumental | námi | vámi | sobú, sebú |
Possessive | náš | váš | svój |
Descendants
[edit]- Czech: my
References
[edit]- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “my”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my
Declension
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “my, ny (?)”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish my.
Pronoun
[edit]my
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), from Phoenician 𐤌 (m /mēm/).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]my n (indeclinable)
- mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), my is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 88 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 138 times in essays, 200 times in fiction, and 419 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 875 times, making it the 49th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- my in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- my in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “my”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “MY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2021 June 22
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1081
Portuguese
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited 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”).
Determiner
[edit]my
See also
[edit]personal pronoun | possessive pronoun |
possessive determiner | |||||
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subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
first person | singular | A, I, Ik | me | mysel | mine, mines | mine, my | |
plural | we | us, we | oorsel, oorsels | oors | our | ||
second person | singular | standard (formal) | ye you, yow |
ye you, yow |
yersel yoursel |
yers yours |
yer your |
Insular (informal) | thoo | thee | thysel, theesel | thines | thy, thee, thees | ||
plural | ye, yese you, youse |
ye, yese you, youse theer |
yesels yoursels |
yers yours |
yer your | ||
third person | singular | masculine | he, e | him, im | himsel, hissel | his, is | his, is |
feminine | scho, she, shu | her, er | hersel | hers | her, er | ||
neuter | it hit |
it hit |
itsel hitsel |
its hits |
its hits | ||
genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
ane | ane | – | – | ane's | ||
plural | thay | thaim | thaimsel, thaimsels | thairs | thair |
References
[edit]- “my, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “my, poss. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
Silesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish my.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my
- we; first person plural
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- my in silling.org
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “my”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]my n
Upper Sorbian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.
Pronoun
[edit]my
Declension
[edit]First person pronouns | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||
Nominative | ja | mój | my | |||||
Genitive | mje (after preposition) mnje |
naju | nas | |||||
Dative | mi (after preposition) mni |
namaj | nam | |||||
Accusative | mje (after preposition) mnje |
naju | nas | |||||
Instrumental | mnu | namaj | nami | |||||
Locative | mni | nas | ||||||
Second person pronouns | ||||||||
Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||
Nominative | ty | wój | wy | |||||
Genitive | će (after preposition) tebje |
waju | was | |||||
Dative | ći (after preposition) tebi |
wamaj | wam | |||||
Accusative | će (after preposition) tebje |
waju | was | |||||
Instrumental | tobu | wamaj | wami | |||||
Locative | tebi | was | ||||||
Third person pronouns | ||||||||
Masculine singular | Feminine singular | Neuter singular | Dual virile | Dual nonvirile | Plural virile | Plural nonvirile | ||
Nominative | wón | wona | wono | wonaj | wonej | woni | wone | |
Genitive | jeho (after preposition) njeho |
jeje (after preposition) njeje |
jeho (after preposition) njeho |
jeju | jich (after preposition) nich |
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Dative | jemu (after preposition) njemu |
jej (after preposition) njej |
jemu (after preposition) njemu |
jimaj (after preposition) nimaj |
jim (after preposition) nim | |||
Accusative | jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho |
ju (after preposition) nju |
jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje |
jeju (after preposition) njeju |
jej (after preposition) njej |
jich (after preposition) nich |
je (after preposition) nje | |
Instrumental | nim | njej | nim | nimaj | nimi | |||
Locative | nich |
Further reading
[edit]- “my” in Soblex
West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]my
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