From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to [en] (compare [en]);
formed by analogy to [en]. Displaced [en] (from Middle English [enm]) in
standard speech.[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Pronoun
[en]
1. That or those belonging to us .
1. Excluding the person(s) being addressed [exclusive _ours_]
2. Including the person(s) being addressed [inclusive _ours_] .
2. That or those belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
3. That or those belonging to people in general.
4. [en] That or those belonging to everyone being addressed.
5. [en] That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; [used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.]
6. [en] [Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners] .
7. [en] Our house or home.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |both of ours |friend of ours |of ours }}
**** Translations
[that which belongs to us]
- Aghwan: [xag]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bahamian Creole: [bah]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bikol Central: [bcl] , [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop] [Bohairic] , [cop] [Bohairic] , [cop] [Bohairic] , [cop] [Sahidic] , [cop] [Sahidic] , [cop] [Sahidic]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el] , [el] , [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Mongolian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romani: [rom] , [rom] , [rom]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Etymonline]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr]
The Early Modern French pronunciation was [/uʁ/] before consonants, [/uʁz/]
before vowels, and [/uʁs/] in pausa. For the most part, the pausal
pronunciations were eventually lost, but in some cases they were
re-established as the basic form (reinforced in part by the spelling, in part
by related words; in this case perhaps the feminine [fr]).
*** Pronunciation
- [ourse]
- [qq=archaic pronunciation, either for both numbers or only for the plural]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. bear
2. [fr] [A person like a bear:]
1. loner , someone who avoid s company [since 1671]
2. * [fr]
3. beast , beastly person [since 1820]
4. [fr] bear (hairy gay man)
5. [fr] pressman , worker with a hand printing press [1700s—1800s]
3. masthead , imprint [list of a publication's main staff]
4. [fr] rough cut
5. [fr] prison , jail
**** Derived terms
{{col|fr |ail des ours |herbe aux ours |il ne faut pas vendre la peau de
l'ours avant de l'avoir tué |nounours |oreille d'ours |ours à face courte
|ours à lunette |ours blanc |ours brun |ours en peluche |ours mal léché |ours
malais |ours marin |ours noir |ours polaire |ourson }}
**** Descendants
- [ht]
- [lou]
- [mfe]
- [crs]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
- [R:Robert]
[fr]
** Middle English
*** Pronoun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Middle French
*** Etymology
[frm]
*** Noun
[m]
1. bear
**** Descendants
- [fr]
[frm]