oure
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ūre, from Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz. Compare Middle Dutch onse and Middle High German unser.
Alternative forms
- our, ouer, ouwer, houre, hour, oyur, ouȝr, owre, ure, ur, urre, urr, hure, hur, wre, wr, vure, vur, ore, hore, ura
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuːr(ə)/
- (unstressed) IPA(key): /ˈur(ə)/
Determiner
oure (nominative pronoun we)
- our
- c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 6, recto, lines 198-199; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, OCLC 150454844, page 12:
- Hit tidde after on a time · as tellus our bokes / as þis bold barn his beſtes · blybeliche keped […]
- Afterwards, as our books record, it happened one day that / while this brave child was peacefully looking after his animals […]
- my, mine (This is equivalent to Modern English "royal we", but is also used informally).
Descendants
- English: our
- Scots: oor, wir
- Yola: oor, our, ure, oure, owre, oore
See also
Middle English personal pronouns
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 | min | ||
2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 | þin | |||
3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 | him | his | his hisen | |
f | sche, heo | hire heo | hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
n | hit | hit him2 | his, hit | — | |||
dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 | hem | here | here heres, heren | |
bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
References
- “ǒure, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Etymology 2
From Old English ūr (“aurochs”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūr, from Proto-Germanic *ūraz.
Alternative forms
- ore
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uːr/
Noun
oure
- (rare) aurochs
Descendants
- English: owre (obsolete)
References
- “ǒure, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Noun
oure
- Alternative form of houre
Noun
oure
- Alternative form of ore (“ore”)
Determiner
oure
- Alternative form of your
Yola
Determiner
oure
- Alternative form of oor
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 6:
- an na plaine garbe o' oure yola talke,
- and in the simple dress of our old dialect,
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114