my

my · determiner¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*méynos“my; mine”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*mīnaz“my, mine”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*mīn
4. Old English · inherited frommīn“my, mine”
5. Middle English · inherited frommi
6. English todaymy

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.

my · interjection²

From my, kept upon ellipsis of an oath such as my word or my God.

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