ABSTRACT
9.11. The possessive of the 3rd person pl was OE heora, ME her, but their (theirs) prevailed, chiefly on account of the confusion of her with the feminine pronoun. Examples of the old form: Malory 448 and bare the two knyghtes out of her sadels to the erthe, and so lefbe hem lyeng and rode her wayes | ib 50 kepe theire castels and her countreyes | Sh Oth III. 3.66 the warres must make example out of her best | H6A I. 1.83 Were our teares wanting to this funerall, these tidings would call forth her flowing tides | Lucr 1588 these water-galls in her dim element.
