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English
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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 British and US dialects, especially Appalachia) Ours.
1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, All-Story Cavalier Weekly:“Supposin',” continued Ward, “that we let two o' your men an' two o' ourn under Mr. Divine, shin up them cliffs back o' the cove an' search fer water an' a site fer camp—the rest o' us'll have our hands full with the salvage.”
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Middle English
Pronoun
ourn
- Alternative form of ouren