Where does “meu” come from?

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

meu (Portuguese): First-person singular possessive pronoun; hey;...

Definitions

  1. First-person singular possessive pronoun; hey;...

Ancestry of “meu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesemeu—
2Latinmeusmy, mine
3Proto-Italicmeosmy
Every word from Proto-Italic meos →Every word from Latin meus →Every word from Old Portuguese meu →