ôar
See also: oar, OAR, and öar
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German iuwer, from Old High German iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz (“your”). Cognate with German euer, Dutch uw, English your, Icelandic yðar.
Determiner
ôar (plural ôarn, bon/dar ôordarn) (Sette Comuni)
- your (plural)
- 'Z ôar haus hat biil dabaite. ― Your home is very spacious.
- D'ôarn züune zèint guute puuben. ― Your sons are good boys.
- Ist an tòchtar dar ôordarn gamèghelt? ― Is your daughter married?
- yours (plural)
- Diize khüu zèint d'ôarn. ― These cows are yours.
Usage notes
The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:
- They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
- Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
- The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
- Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
- Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.
Inflection
| Inflection of ôar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
| ôordar | ôara | ôares | ôare | |
| These inflections are only used in exclamations. | ||||
See also
| Possessive determiners | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| 1st person | main | ögnar |
| 2nd person | dain | ôar |
| 3rd person | zain | |
References
- “ôar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo