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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈuːr(ə)/
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /ˈur(ə)/

Determiner

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, 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

oure (nominative we)

  1. First-person plural possessive pronoun: ours, of us
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 memin
mi1		min
2nd-person þou þeþin
þi1		þin
3rd-person m hehim
hine2		himhishis
hisen
f sche, heohire
heo		 hirehire
hires, hiren
n hithit
him2		his, hit—
dual3 1st-person wit unk unker
2nd-person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st-person we us, ousoureoure
oures, ouren
2nd-person4 ye yowyouryour
youres, youren
3rd-person inh. hehem
he2		hemherehere
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeimþeirþeir
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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /uːr/

Noun

oure

  1. (rare) aurochs
References

Noun

oure

  1. Alternative form of houre

Noun

oure

  1. Alternative form of ore (“ore”)

Determiner

oure

  1. Alternative form of your

Yola

Determiner

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
  • 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
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