from me born
التعريفات والمعاني
== 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 […]
=== 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.
1997, Opal Palmer Adisa, It Begins with Tears, Heinemann (publ.), page 150.