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The pronoun ''I'' is the first-person singular nominative case personal pronoun in Modern English. It is used to refer to one's self and is capitalized, although other pronouns, such as ''he'' or ''she'', are not capitalized. In Australian English, British English and Irish English, ''me'' can refer to someone's possessions (see archaic and non-standard forms of English personal pronouns). ==Etymology== English ''I'' originates from Old English (OE) ''ic''. Its predecessor ''ic'' had in turn originated from the continuation of Proto-Germanic ''ik'', and ''ek''; ''ek'' was attested in the Elder Futhark inscriptions (in some cases notably showing the variant ''eka''; see also ek erilaz). Linguists assume ''ik'' to have developed from the unstressed variant of ''ek''. Variants of ''ic'' were used in various English dialects up until the 1600s.〔()〕 Germanic cognates are: Old Frisian ''ik'', Old Norse ''ek'' (Danish, Norwegian ''jeg'', Swedish ''jag'', Icelandic ég), Old High German ''ih'' (German ''ich'') and Gothic ''ik'' and in Dutch also "ik". The Proto-Germanic root came, in turn, from the Proto Indo-European language (PIE). The reconstructed PIE pronoun is *''egō, egóm'', with cognates including Sanskrit ''aham'', Hittite ''uk'', Latin ''ego'', Greek ''egō'' and Old Slavonic ''azъ'', Alviri-Vidari (an Iranian language) ''اَز'' (az) The oblique forms are formed from a stem '' *me-'' (English ''me''), the plural from '' *wei-'' (English ''we''), the oblique plural from '' *ns-'' (English ''us''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I (pronoun)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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