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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots
 
ENTRY:me-1
DEFINITION:Oblique form of the personal pronoun of the first person singular. For the nominative see eg. 1. me, myself, from Old English m (dative and accusative), from Germanic *m-. 2. Possessive adjective *mei-no-. a. mine2, my, from Old English mn, my; b. mynheer, from Middle Dutch mijn, my. Both a and b from Germanic *mn-. 3. Possessive adjective *me-yo-. Madame, Monsieur, from Latin meus, mine. 4. Genitive form *me-wo. mavourneen, from Old Irish mo, my. (Pokorny 1. me- 702.)
 
 
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