Me etymology

English

English word me comes from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-n-, Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (I (first-person pronoun).), Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om, Proto-Indo-European *me (In the middle of, near, by, around, with.)

Etymology of me

Detailed word origin of me

Dictionary entry Language Definition
*(e)me-n- Proto-Indo-European (ine) me
*éǵh₂ Proto-Indo-European (ine) I (first-person pronoun).
*éǵh₂om Proto-Indo-European (ine)
*me Proto-Indo-European (ine) In the middle of, near, by, around, with.
*ik Proto-Germanic (gem-pro)
ᛖᚲ Proto-Norse (gmq-pro) I.
Old English (ca. 450-1100) (ang)
me Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) Me (first-person singular object pronoun).
me English (en) (Australia, British, New Zealand, colloquial) My; preceding a noun, marking ownership.. (US, colloquial) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.. (colloquial) As the complement of the copula (“be” or “is”).. (colloquial, with "and") As the subject of a verb.. (nonstandard, not with "and") As the subject of a verb.. (obsolete) Myself; as a reflexive direct object [...]

Words with the same origin as me

Descendants of *éǵh₂

chill ego ma mine my undermine ya

Descendants of *me

midwife