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moi

/mwa/

pronoun/mwa/

me (first-person singular disjunctive pronoun); me (first-person singular object pronoun of imperative verbs)

L'État, c'est moi.I am the State.

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me. See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè and Bourguignon moi from Old French; Corsican and Franco-Provençal mè.

noun, masculine/mwa/

the ego; the me

Related: non-moi

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me. See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè and Bourguignon moi from Old French; Corsican and Franco-Provençal mè.