Where does “þeiren” come from?

þeiren (Middle English) comes from Middle English þeir, from Old Norse þeirra.

þeiren (Middle English): Third-person plural genitive pronoun: theirs

Definitions

  1. Third-person plural genitive pronoun: theirs

Ancestry of “þeiren”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishþeirThird-person plural possessive determiner: their
2Old Norseþeirra—

Words derived from “þeiren”

Every word from Old Norse þeirra →Every word from Middle English þeir →