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theirn

theirn pronoun: theirs.

Pronoun

theirn

  1. (Appalachia, East-Midlands, UK, US, dialectal, especially) Theirs.
    • I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
    • “Nothin,” Dilsey said. “You tend to yo business en let de whitefolks tend to deir'n.”1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Forms of theirn

alternative formtheir'n

Origin of theirn

From Middle English theiren, compare hern. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, theirs, which see for more.

Questions about theirn

What does theirn mean?
Theirn means theirs.
What part of speech is theirn?
Theirn is a pronoun.

Words near theirn in the dictionary

  1. Their Royal Majesties
  2. Their Serene Highnesses
  3. their'n
  4. their's
  5. theire
  6. theirn
  7. theirs
  8. theirself
  9. theirselves
  10. theirsen
  11. theirsens

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