Me
/miː/noun
The objective and dative form of the first-person singular pronoun.
Did you know?The English me comes from ancient Indo-European pronoun forms so old that they predate English, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit as separate languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*me
“first-person singular pronoun, 'me' / 'myself'”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*mē
“first-person singular object form”
Old English
OE
mec / mē
“object form of the first-person singular pronoun”
Middle English
ME
me
“object form of the first-person singular pronoun”
Modern English
English
me
“objective and dative form of the first-person singular pronoun”