different between ours vs outs

English

Etymology

From Middle English oures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to our +? -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced ourn (from Middle English ouren) in standard speech.

Pronunciation

• (General American), IPA^(key): /?a??z/, /??z/
• (Received Pronunciation), IPA^(key): /?a??z/, /??z/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)z, -??(?)z
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Pronoun

ours

1. That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Ruso, sour

French

Etymology

From Middle French ours, from Old French urs, from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h???t?os (“bear”).

The Early Modern French pronunciation was /u?/ before consonants, /u?z/ before vowels, and /u?s/ 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 ourse).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u?s/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /u?/ (archaic pronunciation, either for both numbers or only for the plural)

Noun

ours m (plural ours, feminine ourse)

1. bear (animal)
2. masthead (list of a newspaper's main staff)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: ous
• Louisiana Creole French: lours, lous
• Mauritian Creole: lurs
• Seychellois Creole: lours

Further reading

• “ours” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Pronoun

ours

1. Alternative form of oures

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French urs, from Latin ursus.

Noun

ours m (plural ours, feminine singular ourse, feminine plural ourses)

1. bear (mammal)

Descendants

• French: ours

English

Noun

outs

1. plural of out

See also

• on the outs

Verb

outs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of out

Anagrams

• Otsu, SOTU, Tsou, otsu, oust, sout, tOSU

Spanish

Noun

outs

1. plural of out