ôar

See also: oar, OAR, and öar

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German iuwer, from Old High German iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz (“your”). Cognate with German euer, Dutch uw, English your, Icelandic yðar.

Determiner

ôar (plural ôarn, bon/dar ôordarn) (Sette Comuni)

1. your (plural)

   'Z ôar haus hat biil dabaite. ― Your home is very spacious.

   D'ôarn züune zèint guute puuben. ― Your sons are good boys.

   Ist an tòchtar dar ôordarn gamèghelt? ― Is your daughter married?

2. yours (plural)

   Diize khüu zèint d'ôarn. ― These cows are yours.

Usage notes

The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:

• They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
• Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
  • The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
• Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
• Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

Inflection

Inflection of ôar
masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
ôordar	ôara	ôares	ôare
These inflections are only used in exclamations.

See also

Possessive determiners
	singular	plural
1st person	main	ögnar
2nd person	dain	ôar
3rd person	zain

References

• “ôar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo