Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗My; belonging to me. · Used attributively after the noun it modifies. · Used attributively before a vowel.
Used predicatively. · Used substantively, with an implied noun. · Used absolutely, set off from the sentence. · My house or home.
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.
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