Definition me
Etymology 1
From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me (“me”), North Frisian me (“me”), Saterland Frisian mie (“me”), Dutch me, mij (“me”), Low German mi (“me”), German mir (“me”, dative), Icelandic mér (“me”, dative), Latin mē (“me”), Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”).
Pronoun
me (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)
- As the direct object of a verb.
- (obsolete) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
- As the object of a preposition.
- As the indirect object of a verb.
- (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.
Etymology 2
Variant form.
Determiner
me
- (Britain regional, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my