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theirn a midl., south., and U.S. dial. form for theirs, on the analogy of ourn, yourn, hisn, hern. See also Eng. Dial. Dict.1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. x. 50 When other folks lost theirn from the boys, hisn always hung there like bait to a hook. 1896 ‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Sept....
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his'n
hisn, his'n, absol. poss. pron. dial. (ˈhɪz(ə)n) Also 5 hysene, 6 hizzen, 20 hissn. [f. his poss. pron., analogous to hern, ourn, yourn, theirn, apparently by form-association with my, mine, thy, thine, earlier m{iacu}, m{iacu}n, th{iacu}, th{iacu}n, in which the -n distinguishes the absolute from t...
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East Midlands English
Personal and possessive pronouns
Personal pronouns differ from standard English as follows:
Example: It eent theirn; it's ourn!
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hern
▪ I. hern, hirn, n. Chiefly Sc. (in form hirn, hyrn) or dial. after 1500. (hɜːn) Forms: 1–6, 9 dial. hyrne, 3–5 (also 9 dial.) hurne, herne, 3–6 hirne, (3 huyrne, 4 huir(e)ne, heorne, 5 hierne, hyerne, heerne, h(e)yron, heryn), 5–6 hyrn, 5–8 hirn. [OE. hyrne wk. fem. = OFris. herne, ON. hyrna (Da. h...
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Appalachian English
The possessive absolutive forms, Standard yours, his, hers, theirs, and ours appear as yourn, hisn, hern, theirn, and ourn.
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he
▪ I. he, pers. pron., 3rd sing. masc. nom. (hiː, hɪ) Forms: see below. [The simplest form of the (orig. demonstr.) base hi-, which supplies not only the pronoun forms him, his, her, (h)it, (h)em, but also the adverbs here, hence, hither. OE. he, hē was cogn. with OFris. hi, he (fem. hiu, neut. hit),...
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