my
Det
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- Belonging to me.
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- Associated with me.
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- Related to me.
- First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
- In the possession of me.
Intj
- Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
Pronoun
- Belonging to or associated with the speaker.
Examples
- My strategy for Words With Friends is to always save an ’S’.
- My, what big teeth you have!
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 7
my: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
my: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 7
my: valid Words With Friends Word