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From Old English þīn.

þin (nominative pronoun þou)

  2. Second-person singular genitive determiner: thine, your.[3]

When followed by a word starting with a consonant other than h-, þi or one of its variants is typically used.

  • English: thine (determiner)
Middle English personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
singular 1st person I, ich, ik me min
mi1		 min
2nd person þou þe þin
þi1		 þin
3rd person m he him
hine2		 him his his
hisen
f sche, heo hire
heo 		hire hire
hires, hiren
n hit hit
him2		 his, hit —
dual3 1st person wit unk unker
2nd person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st person we us, ous oure oure
oures, ouren
2nd person4 ye yow your your
youres, youren
3rd person inh. he hem
he2		 hem here here
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
þeires, þeiren

1 Used preconsonantally or before h.
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

þin (nominative þou)

  2. Second-person singular possessive pronoun: thine, yours.
Middle English personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
singular 1st person I, ich, ik me min
mi1		 min
2nd person þou þe þin
þi1		 þin
3rd person m he him
hine2		 him his his
hisen
f sche, heo hire
heo 		hire hire
hires, hiren
n hit hit
him2		 his, hit —
dual3 1st person wit unk unker
2nd person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st person we us, ous oure oure
oures, ouren
2nd person4 ye yow your your
youres, youren
3rd person inh. he hem
he2		 hem here here
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
þeires, þeiren

1 Used preconsonantally or before h.
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

  1. ^ Brink, Daniel (1992) “Variation between <þ-> and <t-> in the Ormulum”, in Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr and Robert L. Kyes, editors, On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 68), De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 21-35.
  2. ^ Thurber, Beverly A. (2011 February 15) “Voicing of Initial Interdental Fricatives in Early Middle English Function Words”, in Journal of Germanic Linguistics, volume 23, number 1, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, pages 65-81.
  3. ^ “thin, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

From Proto-West Germanic *þīn, whence also Old High German dīn, Old Norse þinn.

þīn

  1. your (singular)
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 2:10-11

      Hē cwæð tō þām laman, þē iċ seċġe, arīs, nim ðīn bed, and gā tō þīnum hūse.

      He said to the lame man, "I say to you, arise, take your bed, and go to your house."

Declension of þīn — Strong only

þīn

  1. genitive of þū: yours or of you (singular)

From Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz.

þin

  1. your, yours (singular)