Yours
/jʊərz/noun
A possessive pronoun meaning belonging to or associated with the person being addressed.
Did you know?‘Yours’ comes from Old English forms built on the same ancient root as ‘you,’ so it literally grew out of direct address rather than a separate “ownership” word.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*yu-
“A second-person pronominal stem, the ancestral source of forms meaning “you.””
Old English
English
ēower
“Your; belonging to you, the plural possessive form of the second person pronoun.”
Middle English
English
yours
“Belonging to you; used as a possessive pronoun and formula of address.”
Modern English
English
yours
“A possessive pronoun meaning belonging to the person addressed.”