my
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: mī
ipa: /maɪ/
ipa: /mʌɪ/
ipa: [məi̯]
ipa: /mə/
note: UK, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /mɪ/
note: UK, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /mi/
note: Ireland, Liverpool, some speakers
ipa: /mi/
homophone: muh
homophone: me stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: ma
form: mah
form: me
form: muh
form: I's
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.
Senses: examples: text: I can't find my book.
text: Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art.
ref: 2022 October 14, Justin Curto, “The 1975’s Matty Healy Prefers Writing Lyrics He’s Afraid Of”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2022:
glosses: First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
Belonging to me.
examples: text: My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
text: Don't you know my name?
text: I recognised him because he had attended my school.
glosses: First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
Associated with me.
examples: text: My parents won't let me go out tonight.
text: From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
ref: 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:
glosses: First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
Related to me.
examples: text: I have to take my books back to the library soon.
glosses: First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
In the possession of me.
Derived terms: ain't no shame in my game
and I claim my five pounds
black as my hat
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 goodness
my gosh
my guy
my heavens
my lady's washbowl
my land
my nabs
my people yearn for freedom
my pleasure
my point exactly
my rear
my sainted aunt
my sainted uncle
myselves
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
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: word: mine
word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.