my

my
my (pron.) c.1200, mi, reduced form of MINE (Cf. mine) used before words beginning in consonants except h- (my father, but mine enemy), and from 14c. before all nouns. As interjection, by 1825, probably a shortened form of my God!

Etymology dictionary. 2014.

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