different between yore vs youre

English

Etymology

From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ?ore, ?are, ?eare, from Old English ?e?ra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *j?r??, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”). More at year.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yô, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: y?r, IPA^(key): /jo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /jo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: your, you're (accents with the pour–poor merger); yaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

yore (uncountable)

1. (poetic) a time long past.

Usage notes

A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.

Synonyms

• foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

Adverb

yore (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.

Synonyms

• long since, of old; see also Thesaurus:long ago

Anagrams

• Roye, oyer, yero

Middle English

Adverb

yore

1. yore (in a time long ago)
2. (with past participle) for a long time
   • c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Dictionary of English Verse, 1900):

     Ichabbe y-yerned yore.

References

• “y?re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Contraction

youre

1. Misspelling of you're.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ?ower.

Alternative forms

• your, yowyr, yowur, yor, yur, yure, yeur, yhure, yhour, yhoure, ?our, ?oure, ?owyr, ?owur, ?or, ?ore, ?ur, ?ure, ?iore, ?hour, ?houre, ?aure, ?iure, ?iwer, ?eur, ?eure, ?euer, ?euwer, ?ewer, ?ewere, gur, gure, giur, giure, giuor, giuer, giuwer, giwer, ihore, ihoire, iure, eour, eoure, eouer, eouwer, eouwere, eower, eowwer, eore, eur, eure, euwer, euwere, our, oure, or, ore, ouer, ouwer, ouwere, ower, owur, hour, æure

Determiner

youre (nominative pronoun ye)

1. second-person plural possessive determiner: your (plural)
2. (formal) second-person singular possessive determiner: your (singular).

Descendants

• English: your

See also

References

• “your, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.