ourn

See also: our'n

English

Alternative forms

our'n

Etymology

From Middle English ourn, ouren, from Old English ūrne and similar forms. Compare mine, thine; also compare and see hern. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, ours, which see for more.

Pronoun

ourn

(obsolete outside Britain and US dialectal, especially Appalachia) Ours.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
  "Supposin'," continued Ward, "that we let two o' your men an' two o' ourn under Mr. Divine, shin up them cliffs ..."

Related terms

References

“ourn” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

roun, roun'

Middle English

Pronoun

ourn

Alternative form of ouren.

References

“ouren, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 June 2018.

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