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my

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/maɪ//mʌɪ/CA

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.

  1. inherited from *méynos✻
  2. inherited from *mīnaz✻
  3. inherited from *mīn✻
  4. inherited from mīn
  5. inherited from mi

Definitions

  1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix

    First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.

    • I can't find my book.
    • Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art.

  2. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.

    • My, what big teeth you have!
    • My, you’re a pretty one!

  3. Symbol for megayear(s).

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Alternative letter-case form of my often used when speaking as God or another important…

      Alternative letter-case form of my often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

    2. Initialism of motor yacht (“diesel-driven yacht”).

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Derived

ain't no shame in my game, and I claim my five pounds, black as my hat, blow my buttons, cheers my dears, did my back hurt your knife, don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining, don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, Draw My Life, elementary, my dear Watson, flat as my hat, forgive my French, get out of my sight, hippity hoppity get off my property, hold my milk, I don't boil my cabbage twice, I don't chew my cabbage twice, I'll go to the foot of my stairs, it's all over my screen, kiss my balls, meeple, milady, milord, my arse, my aunt, my b, my bad, my brother in Christ, my culture is not your costume, my eye, my eyeball, my fellow Americans, my foot, my friend, my giddy aunt, my God, my good man, my goodness, my gosh, my guy · +42 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for my. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA