theirn
See also: their'n
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English theiren, compare hern. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, theirs, which see for more.
Pronoun
[edit]theirn
- (now UK, US, dialect, especially Appalachia, East Midlands) Theirs. [from 15th c.]
- 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:
- “Nothin,” Dilsey said. “You tend to yo business en let de whitefolks tend to deir'n.”