theirsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English theires, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to their +‎ -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced theirn (from Middle English theiren, formed by analogy to mine, thine) in standard speech.^[1]

代名詞

their's

1. Obsolete form of theirs.
   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, published 1840, page 331:

     Colonel Middleton was dismounted amongst the king's forces, of whom one, taking him for a commander of their's, mounted him again, and bid him make haste, and kill a roundhead; and so he escaped.

   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 6, OCLC 960073206, stanza 2, page 162:

     “Forward, the Light Brigade!” / Was there a man dismay’d? / Not tho’ the soldier knew / Some one had blunder’d: / Their’s not to make reply, / Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die, / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.

   • 1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book (page 80)

     Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all.

2. Misspelling of theirs.