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

• our, ouer, ouwer, houre, hour, oyur, ouȝr, owre, ure, ur, urre, urr, hure, hur, wre, wr, vure, vur, ore, hore, ura

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^[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

oure (nominative we)

1. First-person plural possessive pronoun: ours, of us

Descendants

• English: our
• Geordie English: wor
• 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	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

• “ǒure, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• ore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːr/

Noun

oure

2. (rare) aurochs

References

• “ǒure, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Etymology 3

Noun

oure

1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 4

Noun

oure

1. Alternative form of ore (“ore”)

Etymology 5

Determiner

oure

1. Alternative form of your

Portuguese

Verb

oure

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

Yola

Determiner

oure

1. Alternative form of oor
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 5-6:

     an na plaine garbe o' oure yola talke,

     and in the simple dress of our old dialect,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 6-7:

     wi vengem o' core t'gie oure zense o' ye gradès whilke be ee-dighte wi yer name;

     to pour forth from the strength of our hearts, our sense of the qualities which characterise your name,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 9-11:

     Yn ercha an aul o' while yt beeth wi gleezom o' core th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,

     In each and every condition it is with joy of heart that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 6-8:

     Na oure gladès ana whilke we dellt wi' mattoke, an zing t'oure caulès wi plou,

     In our valleys where we were digging with the spade, or as we whistled to our horses in the plough,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 11-12:

     w'oul daie an ercha daie, our meines an oure gurles, praie var long an happie zins,

     we will daily and every day, our wives and our children, implore long and happy days,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 12-14:

     shorne o'lournagh an ee-vilt wi benisons, an yerzel an oure gude Zovereine,

     free from melancholy and full of blessings, for yourself and our good Sovereign,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 114