its

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 171 words | Copyright

its poss. adj. of it. XVI. f. IT + g. -s; superseded it (XIV–XVII in literature, later dial.), which was adopted as an unambiguous substitute for HIS (OE. to XVII).

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