dose anybody know if the Word ME is short for MYSELF?

Question

i mean where did it come from ?

Answer 1

no, im sorry but ME is not short for myself......

oh and i hear the word MYSELF originated from the word THEMSELVES.

Answer 2

No, Word ME stands for Word Millenium Edition. It is the same with Windows (e.i. Windows Me/ME).
This is a special edition of Word (and office) that was releasedin the year 2000.

Answer 3

Same place as other Anglicized terminology. No, it's not an abbreviation for "myself" although it means the same. Both "me" and "myself" are nouns - me is a pronoun, and myself is a reflexive pronoun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/reflex.htm

Answer 4

Reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, himself) earned their name because they reflect the action of a verb back onto the verb's subject. For example:

Sarah built an investment portfolio for herself.
Unfortunately, reflexive pronouns are making ever more frequent, and inappropriate, appearances as replacements for personal pronouns. For example:

My spouse and myself renovated our house. (should be: and I)
Me, Myself, and I
Personal pronouns are grammatically more complex than nouns, partly because their declensions (lists of grammatical forms) have not been compressed to the extent that noun declensions have. Straight grammar instruction having been out of favour in elementary school for some years, few individuals under forty can recite a personal pronoun declension, let alone analyze sentence construction sufficiently well to determine which form in the declension is appropriate for a given situation.

Reflexives seem to be the ideal escape because each reflexive consists of just two forms (the singular and plural). When grammatical instinct fails, and explicit grammatical knowledge is also lacking, the reflexive myself seems a terrific way to bail out of the "I or me" trap. But this belief is mistaken and only produces an uglier error.

So, How Do Declensions Help Me?
If you attended high school before 1970, and if you pursued an "academic" course of instruction, you probably studied Latin. And, if you studied Latin, you very likely remember the pain of learning the declension for every noun type in the language. (Remember terra, terrae; terrae, terram; terris, terras; et al?)

If you didn't study Latin, you missed the pain, but you also missed the gain: that is, the chance to internalize the ideas of number and case expressed in the declension. These concepts are directly transferrable to English usage.

Briefly, number is the characteristic that indicates whether you are speaking of one or many things or persons (singular and plural). Case is the characteristic that indicates the grammatical function, in the sentence, of the word for the thing or person. In English, the thing or person can be the subject of the verb action (nominative case), the receiver (object) of the verb action or the object of a preposition (objective case), or the owner of something (possessive case).

Luckily, while every Latin declension expresses six cases and two numbers (twelve forms in total), a typical noun declension in English expresses just two cases and two numbers (four forms in total). The personal pronoun declensions in English each express three cases and two numbers (six forms in total).

To complicate matters further, pronouns also exhibit two other characteristics: person and gender. Person indicates whether the thing or person represented by the pronoun is speaking (first person), is being spoken to (second person), or is being spoken about (third person). Gender applies only to third person singular, where a distinction is made between male (he), female (she), and neuter (it).

To orient you, here is a typical noun declension:

Singular Plural
Common Case
(Nominative/Objective) house houses
Possessive Case house's houses'

and here is the pronoun declension for the first person:

Singular Plural
Nominative Case I we
Objective Case me us
Possessive Case my (adj.),
mine (pron.) our (adj.),
ours (pron.)

English grammar rules are very difficult to learn. You'd be surprised how many adults, if asked, don't know the 8 parts of speech. I learned this in eighth grade. But as a senior in college, I took advanced grammar ( part of my major) and it kicked my butt. THE hardest class!

Answer 5

no. They are separate. They may have been interchangable 400 years ago, but no now.

Answer 6

ME = I am me.... I, me, my, myself.
ME = Microsoft Excel ?
ME = I am Winterlotus, now, that is me.

Answer 7

No I don't think so.