yournとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English youren, from 古期英語 eowerne. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, yours. See also ourn, hern. Cognate with West Flemish joen (“yourn”).

発音

• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)n

代名詞

yourn

1. (obsolete outside Britain and US dialects, especially Appalachia) Yours.
   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     Your room's in there, back of the office, an' you'll find some clothes there that the last man forgot to take with him. You ken have 'em, an' from the looks o' yourn you need 'em.

代名詞

your'n

1. Alternative form of yourn
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 271–272:

     Tom, I wouldn’t ever got into all this trouble if it hadn’t ‘a’ been for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your’n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes—not many times, becuz I don’t give a dern for a thing ’thout it’s tollable hard to git—and you go and beg off for me with the widder.