Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English ūre, from Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz. Compare Middle Dutch onse and Middle High German unser.

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Determiner edit

oure (nominative we)

  1. First-person plural genitive determiner: 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[1], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, 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 []
  2. my, mine (This is equivalent to Modern English "royal we", but is also used informally).

Pronoun edit

oure (nominative we)

  1. First-person plural possessive pronoun: ours, of us
Descendants edit
  • English: our
  • Scots: oor, wir
  • Yola: oor, our, ure, oure, owre, oore
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Etymology 2 edit

From Old English ūr (aurochs), from Proto-West Germanic *ūr, from Proto-Germanic *ūraz.

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Noun edit

oure

  1. (rare) aurochs
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Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

oure

  1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 4 edit

Noun edit

oure

  1. Alternative form of ore (ore)

Etymology 5 edit

Determiner edit

oure

  1. Alternative form of your

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Verb edit

oure

  1. inflection of ourar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Yola edit

Determiner edit

oure

  1. 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,

References edit

  • 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