different between your vs mommy

English

Alternative forms

• ur (informal, Internet, text messaging)
• ya, yer (informal)
• yo, yo' (African American Vernacular)

Etymology

From Middle English your, youre, from Old English ?ower, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Compare German euer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /j??/, /j??/, (unstressed) /j?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• (US) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /j???/, /j???/, /j?/
• Rhymes: -o??, -??(?)
• Rhymes: -??(?) (some rhotic dialects)

• In US English, /j?/ is generally the unstressed version of /j???/; in many dialects, however, /j?/ is frequent even in positions of stress.

Determiner

your

1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

   Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience.

   Is this your cat?

2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
3. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.

   Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.

   Your Show of Shows

   Your World with Neil Cavuto

   Not Your Average Travel Guide

4. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)

   Your man just bought a new car.

   Have you seen what your one over there is doing?

Translations

Contraction

your

1. Misspelling of you're.

Usage notes

• The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in written English.

See also

Middle English

Determiner

your

1. Alternative form of youre

English

Etymology

From mom +? -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mi

Noun

mommy (plural mommies)

1. (US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.

Synonyms

• ma, mama, mamma, mom (US, Canada), momma (US), mum (British), mummy (British)

Descendants

• ? Hebrew: ??????? (mámi)

Translations

Verb

mommy (third-person singular simple present mommies, present participle mommying, simple past and past participle mommied)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal) To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.

Adjective

mommy (comparative mommier, superlative mommiest)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal, chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

   She is the mommiest of mommies.

   • 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby

     I am smack-dab in the middle of the mommiest years of my life. There are toys strewn across my once-pristine floors, goldfish crackers in my couch cushions, and empty juice boxes in my car.