FromProto-Italic*meos, cognate toLatinmeus(“my, mine”).
miio
- (hapax legomenon)my,mine(with feminine nouns)
- c. 1st century, Pompeiian word square, edited and with translation by Peter Schrijver
Roma oiim,miio amor- Rome [is] hate,mine love
Ahapax legomenon only found in a Pompeiianword square. In later copies of the square, the now-obscured Oscan termsoiim(“hate”) andmiio are amended toLatinolim andMilō.
- Schrijver, Peter (2016) “Oscan love of Rome”, inGlotta[1], volume92, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,→ISSN,→JSTOR, retrievedJanuary 21, 2023, pages223–226
