youres

Middle English

Alternative forms

• yours, youris, yourys, yowres, yowris, yowrys, yourez, yurs, ȝoures, ȝoures, ȝouris, ȝourys, ȝowres, ȝowrs, ȝowris, ȝowrys, ȝowers, ȝores, ȝures, ȝuris, ȝhurs, eowræs

Etymology

From your +‎ -es.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːris/, /ˈjiu̯ris/
• (Late Middle English) IPA^(key): /juːrz/

Pronoun

youres (nominative ye)

1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun: yours (plural).
2. (formal) Second-person singular possessive pronoun: yours (singular).
3. Used determinatively with a plural referent: your.
   • 1475, Brome Abraham and Isaac:

     I schall mvltyplye ȝowrys botherys sede As thyke as sterrys be in the skye.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• youren

Descendants

• English: yours

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

• “youres, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 May 2018.