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FromMiddle High Germanmīn, fromOld High Germanmīn, fromProto-West Germanic*mīn, fromProto-Germanic*mīnaz(“my, mine”). Cognate withGermanmein,Englishmine.
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FromLow German; seeGerman Low Germanmoin. Has also been compared withmoro, suggesting a connection withSwedishmorgon, but this is now considered unlikely.[1]
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Inherited fromMiddle Frenchmoy, fromOld Frenchmei,moi,mi(“me”), tonic form ofme, fromLatinmē(“me”), fromProto-Indo-European*(h₁)me-,*(h₁)me-n-(“me”). More atme.
See cognates in regional languages in France:Normanmei,Gallomai,Picardmoè andBourguignonmoi from Old French;Corsican andFranco-Provençalmè.
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Disjunctive ortonic pronouns are the default form of personal pronouns in French, used wherever clitic subject and object pronouns don't apply. Namely:
Moi andtoi are also used as enclitic objects ofimperative verbs, whereas other object pronouns keep the same form as their clitic form.
When the pronoun is found before the verb (either by regular negation withne or other causes), the regular object pronounsme andte are used.
| number | person | gender | nominative (subject) | accusative (direct complement) | dative (indirect complement) | locative (at) | genitive (of) | disjunctive (tonic)1 | emphatic reflexive | relative | proximal | distal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | first | — | je,j’ | me,m’ | — | — | moi | moi-même | — | |||
| second | — | tu | te,t’ | — | — | toi | toi-même | — | ||||
| third | masculine | il2 | le,l’ | lui | y | en | lui | lui-même | celui | celui-ci | celui-là | |
| feminine | elle | la,l’ | elle | elle-même | celle | celle-ci | celle-là | |||||
| indeterminate | on3,l’on (formal),ce4,c’,ça | — | — | — | — | — | — | ce | ceci | cela,ça | ||
| reflexive | — | se,s’5 | — | — | soi | soi-même | — | |||||
| plural | first | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | nous-mêmes | — | |||
| second6 | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | vous-mêmes, vous-même6 | — | ||||
| third | masculine | ils7 | les | leur | y | en | eux7 | eux-mêmes7 | ceux | ceux-ci | ceux-là | |
| feminine | elles | elles | elles-mêmes | celles | celles-ci | celles-là | ||||||
1 The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d’,à,pour,chez,dans,vers,sur,sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
2Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
3On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
4 The nominal indeterminate formce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verbêtre as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
5 The reflexive third person singular forms (se ors’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
6Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonicvous-mêmes becomes singularvous-même.
7Ils,eux andeux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.
moi m (uncountable)
13th century.Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguesemoi, mui, frommoito, muito(“very”) (moi is exclusively used by Galician authors and in theCantigas de Santa Maria).
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FromMiddle High Germanmeie, fromOld High Germanmeio, fromLatinMaius. Cognate withGermanMai.
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| moi | |
|---|---|
| Root | Classifier |
| moi- | — |
Cognates includeMinica Huitotomoi andNüpode Huitotomoi.
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| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| absolutive | moi | — |
| nominative | moidɨ | — |
| accusative | moina | — |
| dative/locative | moimo | — |
| ablative | moimona | — |
| instrumental | moido | — |
| causal | moiri | — |
| privative | moinino | — |
| sequential | moinona | — |
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Inherited fromAssameseমই(moi), fromEarly Assameseমঞি(moñi),মই(moi),Kamarupi Prakrit𑖦𑖂(maï,“by me”),𑖦𑖺𑖊(moe), fromMagadhi Prakrit𑀫𑀇(maï,“by me”),𑀫𑀏(mae), fromSanskritमया(máyā,“by me”).
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inherited fromAssameseমই(moi).
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FromProto-Vietic*-mɔːl ~ muəl(“digging stick”), fromProto-Mon-Khmer*ɟmuul ~ *ɟmuəl(“to dibble”); cognate withBahnarjơmul(“to plant rice using dibble stick to make holes”) andKhmu [Cuang]cmɔːl ("to plant"). Comparemói (as insoi mói, fromProto-Vietic*c-mɔːlʔ).
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