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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole from mi bawn.
Prepositional phrase
from me born
- (Jamaica) Since the time I was born; during my entire life.
- Quoted in 2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (page 92)
- I don't read, I never been to a school for reading: no, I never write a letter from me born neither do I read one
2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons:But from me born, me never hear 'bout no girl wha' fall in love with her little brother.
2017 January 28, Jediael Carter, “That impressive ‘little artist’ from Craighead”, in Jamaica Observer:"I don’t really know enuh miss, but from me born I just love drawing. I’m always drawing," he stated. "I draw a lot of different things, like cars, farm animals, and nuff other things."
2018 June 2, Carlene Davis, “Save the youths with music! - Southside wants a recording studio to occupy the minds of unattached youngsters”, in The Gleaner:"If you check the area in a central Kingston, from me born 35 years ago, there has never been a studio in the area. The youth them always have to go find a bus fare fi go elsewhere, so you know how much that take from them.
"Every other community probably has a studio near, but nobody never really come and say mek we put a studio on the main or somewhere near this community," said Morgan.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary (2020).
Jamaican Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹam ˈmɪ ˈbɑːn/
- Hyphenation: from‧me‧born
Prepositional phrase
from me born
- Alternative form of from mi bawn
- 1975, Vera D. Rubin, Lambros Comitas, Ganja in Jamaica: A medical anthropological study of chronic marihuana use, Mouton & Co. (publ.), page 121.
When asked if ganja made him feel sociable, one subject replied, “Me social from me born.”- When asked if ganja made him feel sociable, one subject replied, “I have been social since I was born.”
- 1997, Opal Palmer Adisa, It Begins with Tears, Heinemann (publ.), page 150.
‘Praise be! From me born me neva see such wickedness.' Beryl heaved her chest and folded her hands in a gesture of defiance.- ‘Praise be! Since my birth I have never seen such wickedness.' Beryl heaved her chest and folded her hands in a gesture of defiance.
2007, Munga Honourable, “Bad from Mi Born”, in Reggae Gold 2007:Mi bad from mi born / And that's why mi gwaan so.- I've always been a bad guy / That's why I behave like that.