Etymology Explorer › Galician

Where does “meu” come from?

meu (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic meos — my.

meu (Galician): my; mine; man; dude

Definitions

  1. my; mine; man; dude

Ancestry of “meu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesemeu—
2Latinmeusmy, mine
3Proto-Italicmeosmy
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