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Word Origins Dictionary
- our[our 词源字典]
- our: [OE] Our is the English member of the common Germanic family of first person plural possessive forms, which also includes German unser and Dutch onze. They all come from the same prehistoric base, *ons, as produced English us.
=> us[our etymology, our origin, 英语词源] - our (pron.)
- Old English ure "of us," genitive plural of the first person pronoun, from Proto-Germanic *ons (cognates: Old Saxon usa, Old Frisian use, Old High German unsar, German unser, Gothic unsar "our"), from PIE *nes-, oblique case of personal pronoun in first person plural (source of Latin nos "we," noster "our"). Also compare ours. Ourselves (late 15c.), modeled on yourselves, replaced original construction we selfe, us selfum, etc.