my

/mɪ/ · /mi/

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.

Derived terms

86 terms

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, easy as kiss my hand, 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 day, 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, my hat, my heavens, my lady's washbowl, my land, my learned friends, my nabs, my pleasure, my point exactly, my rear, my sainted aunt, my sainted uncle, myselves, my sibling in Christ, myside bias, my sides, my sister in Christ, my son, my stars, mystorical, mystory, mytacism, my teeth are floating, 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, oh my fucking God, ohmygosh, shiver my sides, shiver my soul, slap my ass and call me Susan, smoke my pole, so help my tater, stap my vitals, 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, wet my lips, whoops, there go my trousers

Related terms

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mine, Ime, me, myselfmemysen, mymineme, we, us, ourselvesourselfoursen, oursourn, our, you, yourselfyoursen, yoursyourn, your, thou, thee, thyselftheeselfthysen, thine, thythine, youye, yourselves, you ally'all you guys yous, y'allselves, all yours y'all's you guys' your guys', all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys', he, him, himselfhisselfhissen, hishisn, his, she, her, herselfhersen, hershern, ithit, itselfhitself, itshis, itshishits, they, them, themself, themselves, theirs, their, one, oneself, –, one's, themhem, 'em, themselvestheirsen, theirstheirn, The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun, including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete, archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.