unker

Middle English

Alternative forms

• unkere, unnkerr

Etymology 1

From Old English uncer, genitive form of wit, from Proto-Germanic *unkeraz, possessive of *wet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈunkər/

Determiner

unker (nominative pronoun wit)

1. (Early Middle English) First-person dual possessive determiner: both of our.

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

¹ Used preconsonantally or before h.
² Early or dialectal.
³ Dual 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.
⁴ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

Pronoun

unker (nominative wit)

1. (Early Middle English) First-person dual genitive pronoun: both of ours, the two of ours.

References

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

Etymology 2

Determiner

unker

1. Alternative form of inker

Pronoun

unker

1. Alternative form of inker