# my

> English word · Determiner · IPA /maɪ/ · frequency rank #27

## Definitions
1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
2. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
3. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
4. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **Mya** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/my-vs-mya)
- **myth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/my-vs-myth)
- **Myra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/my-vs-myra)
- **Myer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/my-vs-myer)
- **m** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/m-vs-my)
- **ME** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/me-vs-my)
- **Mr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mr-vs-my)
- **MS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ms-vs-my)
- **MM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mm-vs-my)
- **MA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ma-vs-my)
- **MO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mo-vs-my)
- **mi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mi-vs-my)
- **MP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mp-vs-my)
- **MD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/md-vs-my)
- **MT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mt-vs-my)
- **MG** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mg-vs-my)
- **MC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mc-vs-my)
- **ML** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ml-vs-my)
- **MB** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mb-vs-my)
- **MN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mn-vs-my)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/my