An archaic or dialectal pronoun meaning 'heir' or sometimes used as a variant spelling of 'their' in Old English contexts.
From Old English 'ære' (heir), related to Old Norse and Germanic roots referring to inheritance and succession, sometimes conflated with pronouns in historical texts.
This word shows how spelling was incredibly flexible in medieval times—the same word could be spelled five different ways in the same document, which is why old texts look so strange to modern readers!
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