oures

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ours, ouris, owrs, owres, ourez, owrys, ures, urs

Etymology

From oure +‎ -es.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːris/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key): /uːrz/

Pronoun

oures (nominative we)

1. First-person plural possessive pronoun: ours, of us.
2. Used determinatively when following the modified noun: our.
   • 1400, Cursor Mundi:

     For-giue us, fader, dettes ours.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Synonyms

• ouren

Descendants

• English: ours

See also

Middle English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st-person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi1	min
	2nd-person		þou	þe		þin þi1	þin
	3rd-person	m	he	him hine2	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him2	his, hit	—
dual3	1st-person		wit	unk		unker
	2nd-person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st-person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd-person4		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd-person	inh.	he	hem he2	hem	here	here heres, heren
		bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir 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

• “oures, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.