Words similar to possessives

Example sentences for: possessives

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These nicknames originated as possessives, since Middle English words beginning with a vowel or silent h took the possessive mine instead of my ; so instead of my Anne, people said mine Anne, which was reinterpreted as my Nan, just as the animal once called an eft or an ewt is now known as a newt.