köken: Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بن (ben), من (men), from Proto-Common Turkic *ben, from Proto-Turkic *bẹ. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰢𐰤 (män, “I”). Compare dialectal Azerbaijani bən (“I”).
I (first-person singular nominative and disjunctive pronoun)
köken: Inherited from Kipchak [Term?], from Proto-Common Turkic *bän (“I”), from Proto-Turkic *ben- (“me”, oblique of *be (“I”)). Cognate with Armeno-Kipchak մեն (men); Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽺 (mn /män/), 𐽹𐽰𐽺 (mʾn /män/), Old Turkic 𐰋𐰤 (b²n² /bän/); etc.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai مین (men), من (män), from Proto-Turkic *be-n (“I”). Cognate with Uyghur مەن / men / мән; Turkish ben; Old Turkic 𐰋𐰤 (b²n² /bän/); etc.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai من (män), from Karakhanid مَنْ (män), from Proto-Common Turkic *ben. cognates Cognate with Uzbek and Turkmen men, Turkish ben, Azerbaijani mən, Gagauz bän, Kazakh and Kyrgyz мен (men), Tatar, Bashkir, Yakut, Dolgan, and Khakas мин (min), and Chuvash [Term?].
köken: Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”). cognate with Tuvan мен (men), Khakas мин (min), Northern Altai мен (men), Kazakh мен (men), Turkish ben, etc.
köken: From Old Hungarian ɛ̄n. Usually considered to continue the Proto-Uralic first-person pronoun *minä (compare e.g. Finnish minä), but there is no consensus on how the Hungarian word has developed to its present shape. At least four proposals have been advanced: * irregular loss of the word-initial *m- * from earlier *ɛmen, through the vocalization and loss of word-internal *-m-, as in many other…
From Proto-Finnic *minä, from Proto-Uralic *minä. From the same base as the plural pronoun me, the possessive suffixes -ni and -mme and the first-person verb endings -n and -mme. See the Proto-Finnic entry for more information on inflection.